To quit or not: Tough options for ODM boss ahead of 2022

ODM leaders Raila Odinga. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

If ODM leader Raila Odinga chooses to, he could bolt out of what is left of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) process. But that would only make him look bad, for he has been telling Kenyans nobody can stop the BBI reggae.

He must, therefore, sulkily hang in there, even as he ponders on the next steps towards the reggae of the 2022 election and whether it can be won and with which partnership. Already, he was set up to denounce his National Super Alliance (Nasa) allies.

They strategically asked him to return the “repeated political favours” they had done him by stepping down for him to have the opposition presidential ticket over the years. His response was cryptic. “They were cowards who had abandoned him during his extra-legal swearing in of 30 January 2018.”