Although the government’s record on security and economic management looks shakier by the day, its opponents are divided and floundering
When the opposition alliance, the Coalition for Reform and Democracy, holds its political retreat to map out strategy at the beginning of September, its leaders will struggle to hold together the unwieldy organisation. The question likely to haunt CORD activists at the meeting is why the opposition has been so ineffective in winning popular support against a government that has failed to tackle worsening corruption and terrorist attacks.
Many of the answers lie in the poor relations and poor communications among the leaders and parties in the alliance. These are
Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM);
Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka of the Wiper Democratic Movement-Kenya (WDM-K);
Moses Simiyu Wetangula of the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-Kenya (Ford-K); and
Martha Wangari Karua of the National Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC). To say there is a massive deficit of trust between the four main leaders is an understatement. So serious is the rivalry at the top that few believe the current alliance will survive in the run-up to the 2017 elections. Effectively, campaigning will start next year.
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