Democracy has winners and losers – ask the rest of the world

The people of Kenya have spoken. Our election day passed without major incident. The myriad international observers praised the electoral process, giving it a resounding thumbs up. You would have thought that the lengthy campaign was well and truly over. Job done. But sadly, Raila Odinga and his NASA colleagues have yet to grasp the essence of democracy – That inevitably, there are winners and losers.

Across the world, elections end at the ballot box and candidates accept whatever outcome they contain. Mr Odinga’s refusal to act like a democrat and accept defeat threatens to place us outside this global consensus.