Office of Opposition Leader will be good for our politics in the long run, not just for Raila Odinga

President William Ruto's nod to a proposal by the Azimio Party to amend the Constitution to create an office for the Leader of the Official Opposition could finally sort out a legal void created by the 2010 Constitution which denied the second-best presidential candidate in a General Election a chance to play a role in the country's governance.

Unlike in the old dispensation, the new supreme law, which took effect ahead of the 2013 elections, does not allow presidential candidates and their running mates from simultaneously seeking parliamentary positions.