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Why embrace losers after every election?

NASA supporters during Raila Odinga’s mock swearing-in at Uhuru Park Nairobi in 2018. [File, Standard]

For Kenyans to develop they must teach their political leaders a lesson. We have witnessed several attempts by senior members of political parties to dethrone leaders whom they consider to have overstayed as party supremos. Ford Kenya, ANC, Wiper and NARC are the most prominent. Why should a leader be the sole party candidate at every election? It stymies the growth of that party. Furthermore, it creates false bedrooms, strongholds, bastions, and treats voters like cows.

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