In every election there is always a dominant issue, which usually is the game changer and determinant which way the elections will go. The ICC issue won Uhuru and Ruto the 2013 elections, and since developments dont win elections, especially because incumbency comes with other ‘failures’ which are more visible than the track record you have set, Jubilee campaign has been a hard sell outside their tribal bases.
The SGR seemed like the emotional screw the dynamic duo had in their sleeves for this election, hence the hurried launch and the accompanying publicity. However, fate seems to have provided a token from the blues; The ICC case and the imminent revival as mooted by one of the Prosecutors in TZ last week. They chap said in the event of a new regime, these cases will come back. https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001243072/icc-regrets-collapse-of-kenyan-cases-hopes-they-will-be-revived.
But then the plot twist; What if Uhuruto, with the money they have, could have paid these guys(which is possible since the prosecutors have flesh and blood) to make these kinds of utterances, so that they’ll milk that and deliver the presidency once more? Why the coincidence? The Jubilee campaign manager should formulate a narrative link the ICC now very well to jakuon, and TZ(the proposed parallel tallying centre will be in TZ).
Au vipi?