The Deputy President William Ruto’s sentiments that the opposition currently looks clueless and not ready for elections may have been spot on. I hate to highlight inadequacies weaknesses, and flaws of our opposition parties.

This is a dangerous mine field to wonder into and doing it is like getting into a den of lions. One will be inviting all sorts of brickbats and unnecessary wrath of the so-called democracy activists.

Current developments in the country leave any reasonable person to doubt the sincerity of our opposition parties in fighting Uhuru Kenyatta and his Jubilee crew. It is common sense that Jubilee is not going to cede power easily through the ballot in the forthcoming elections.

 The political playing field has not shifted significantly in favor of the opposition as some would want us to believe. Nothing has been put in place to ensure that elections are not rigged in Jubilee’s favor.

Even as the chicken comes home to roost following Onyango Oloo’s confessions of how jubilee rigged in the last elections, the opposition is still moving around clueless as ever. Jubilee is guaranteed for another 5 years beyond 2017.

The truth hurts but it has to be said. It was wishful thinking to expect that jubilee would implement measures that will definitely push it out of power. Entrusting Jubilee to implement reforms that will kick it out of power is as good as expecting a lion to feed a zebra.

As the incumbent Jubilee will employ all tricks including intimidation, and use of public sponsored projects to woo voters. What the opposition should be doing is to mobilize every single potential voter right now.

They need to know that there is strength in numbers. Attacking President Uhuru right now does give them a political mileage. Jubilee is a bully with strong financial muscles that will disorient the opposition and deprive it any meaningful platform to get organized.

Faced with such a scenario, it is baffling and disorienting to find opposition leaders clinging on to the leadership of the fragmented political parties which bring nothing positive to an ordinary Kenyan citizen.

 To compound the bewilderment, a reasonable person is much perplexed to hear the supporters of these disintegrated parties claim that their leaders and parties are going to form the next government after the August 2017 election. How they going to do it we don’t know.

The National Super Alliance is in a political quagmire on how to choose their presidential candidate. Every leader wants to be a presidential candidate in the coalition.

 Time is running out, and if these leaders believe in true democracy they purport to advocate for they should understand that part of the process is to allow voters to interrogate their choices and policies.

One wonders what really comes with being a candidate of such a hopeless coalition. Is it the love of the people, access to donor funds or is it just an insatiable thirst for power?

If the opposition needs to remain relevant, there is a need for them to read the dynamics correctly and accordingly adjust, so that they finish what they started together. This can only be achieved in unison and the sooner the better.