While President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga have said that their 2018 handshake was meant to unite the nation, the argument is still disputable.
The two have said that the much-publicized truce was arrived at with a long-term goal of leveling the playing ground, to make it able for anyone to vie and ascend to the presidency.
However, majority of Kenyans are still having it hard believing this narrative, as the two are still being seen active and possible contestants in top leadership slots in the 2022 polls.
Raila is being viewed as a possible presidential aspirant and Uhuru, on the other hand, is being seen as eyeing the Prime Minister's position, should the quest to amend the law succeed.
This, outweighs their narrative, proving right the people arguing that the truce was meant to unite the two in readiness for the 2022 general elections, where they will fight as a team.
In this case, the only way the two gentlemen can make their argument believable is by completely keeping off the 2022 polls and letting the rest of the politicians proceed to contest.
They can go a step further by not only not vying, but also not involving themselves in any way, or endorsing anyone, given that their endorsement will have a major influence on who wins.
Uhuru will also need to drop his hard stand against his deputy William Ruto's early campaigns, which also seems like an attempt to prevent his (Ruto) presidency.
Though he argues that he needs time to realize his agenda, it is quite not convincing of the president to say that Ruto's campaigning can prevent him from delivering, if he really wants to.
There is no way Ruto's campaigns can interfere with Uhuru deploying his Cabinet Ministries to identify needed projects, even though Members of Parliament, and allocating monies to them.
The DP can also not risk preventing Uhuru from delivering, well aware that he will be seeking to ride on his development record in his campaign.
For Raila, the former Prime Minister must cease speaking about 'tsunamis', which to many, is a war declaration on some people eyeing the presidency, specifically Ruto.
By so doing, he is contradicting the original argument that everybody should be allowed to fairly vie, no matter their tribe or background.
This portrays him as being untruthful, which many would argue is the same thought within Uhuru's quarters, given that the two have been reading from the same page since the truce.
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