President Uhuru Kenyatta currently enjoys massive admiration across the country courtesy of his ceasefire and current good terms with opposition chief Raila Odinga who equally controls a massive voting block.
The Head of State and Raila on March this year reached a truce, putting to rest the political enmity that existed between their camps following their competition in the last two consecutive presidential elections.
Anchored on the Building Bridges Initiative which promises to among others eradicate the recurrent electoral injustice headache, Uhuru will lose his popularity among Raila's supporters should another rigging allegation be reported in the nation during elections.
Further, Raila's quarters noted that they as well discussed and agreed on constitutional reforms via a referendum, another issue that would see him again face hostility from the region, should the bid fall.
With the two believed to enjoy the majority of Kenyans’ support, a failure will directly be pointed at Uhuru who is even yet to open up on his stand on the referendum initiative.
Raila, on the other hand, has come out to openly declare his support for the same, while Uhuru and his allies remain non-committal on the same.
Further, their union has been understood by a section of people from the region as a possible plan to jointly approach the 2022 presidential election with the intention of enabling Raila to win.
Therefore, should Uhuru make a U-turn and instead support his deputy William Ruto as he had promised earlier, he would come out as a traitor and, consequently, re-assume his initial position as an unwanted politician in regions allied to the former Prime Minister.
And though the head of state is on his way to retirement after serving for two terms and has nothing to lose on matters politics, another disagreement with the region will be a threat to the unification legacy he seeks to leave.
“I hope for many things, but one is that I will leave a united and cohesive society and that we shall have won the war on corruption,” Uhuru said when he opened the M-Pesa Foundation Academy in Thika on Monday, October 29, according to the Standard.
This will bring the President back to level one as he currently only relies on the unification issue after failing to combat the graft menace fully so far, with many more cases of theft of public coffers coming up regularly.#hivisasaoriginal