I’ve been keenly following what @Koolibah , @Mzichi and @sani have been posting. @LongerTime called the elections long before we even went to the polls. But to understand where it all went wrong, we have to go back.
Back to the handshake. The handshake was Raila’s poisoned chalice. The handshake was an amalgam of everything negative to Baba’s character politically. That of betrayal.
And it was the handshake that exposed him in full glory. From being quiet on Miguna’s forced exile, to pushing out his fellows who stood with him (Wetangula, Mudavadi & Kalonzo), to keeping quiet when citizens were sleeping outside due to night demolitions, down to teaming up with the government to push down expensive taxes down mwanachi’s throat. In no period of time has Raila made so many amateurish moves.
It was so bad that even the Coast region that had steadfastly stood by him chose to avoid the polls altogether since he stood with the living embodiment of the land issues that has bedeviled the region for eons.
I really wish that he won. So that maybe we may have seen what he’s been fighting for in action. But I now believe that Nabii was right when he said that Baba was to retire, not run. They say man can always reinvent himself, but in Raila’s case, he lost it the moment he joined hands with Uhuru. And not in a good way.
So for him to go about calling for a revolution is sadly laughable at best.
Raila lost his ethics, his beliefs and his worldview when he left everyone else by themselves for the very fleeting trappings of temporal power. The only direction for him is down.