To vie or not will depend on BBI verdict, declares Raila

ODM leader Raila Odinga popularizing BBi in Lodwar Barasa Park. [Emmanuel Wanson, Standard]

Opposition leader Raila Odinga’s announcement on Thursday that he is betting on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) to determine whether he will be on the ballot next year has thrown wide open the high stakes attached to the process.

The ODM leader has hitherto avoided talk of 2022 polls and whether his name will be on the ballot. Cautious and measured in his words, he has always insisted on his bigger vision for the country through the BBI, and how the focus ought to be on BBI.