Uhuru's kind words on Raila set tongues wagging

President Uhuru Kenyatta with ODM leader Raila Odinga during 58th Madraka Day celebrations at Jomo Kenyatta International Stadium Kisumu on June 1, 2021.[Collins Oduor, Standard]

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Madaraka Day speech could have given the strongest hint of his kind of a preferred successor, next year.

It was a curious statement not lost to keen listeners but very weighty, perhaps a pointer to his plans in the sunset days of his presidential term....