Ruto turned Kenya's largest opposition party into a coalition partner without an election, a merger, or a single fulfilled promise. When the MOU expires on 7 March 2026, ODM's journey from opposition to Ruto's coalition partner becomes official. By Peninah Wangeci Political Strategist and Commentator Stop asking whether ODM will leave Ruto’s government
By Patrick Iraki The mantle that Raila Odinga wrested from Jaramogi’s anointed successor has, by the cruel arithmetic of mortality, found its way back to the Mulembe nation but the young man upon whose shoulders it now rests must understand that a mantle is not a throne. There is, in the oral
By Patrick Iraki The picture from Addis Ababa tells you everything and nothing. It is the most DISHONEST photograph in Kenyan political history since the Handshake. And I will tell you why. Last week, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed stood between two Kenyan men and smiled for the camera. On his left,
By Patrick Iraki The Luhya are the second-largest ethnic group in Kenya. They have 6.8 million people, 2.9 million potential votes when you count the western diaspora in Nairobi, Nakuru and Mombasa, and precisely zero presidents in sixty-three years of independence. This is not, as the conventional analysis insists, because they