Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga has revealed what he thinks is the biggest regret of his decades-long stint in opposition politics.
Speaking on Sunday in an exclusive interview with NTV, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) supremo divulged that his biggest regret was the fact that the opposition lost in 1992 because of divisions.
Mr Odinga held the view that had the then opposition resisted the urge to go separate ways and stuck together, then the opposition would have carried the day in 1992 against the then president of Kenya Daniel Arap Moi.
He said that the opposition had the numbers to clinch the presidential elections.
At the time, his father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Mwai Kibaki, and Kenneth Matiba were running separately against the then-incumbent President Moi.
"If the opposition in 1992 had been united, we would have won the elections, particularly the presidential elections. We had the numbers, we got 64% and Moi got only 36% but he managed to win because ours was slit," the former prime minister said.
Mr Odinga went on to say that the loss of the opposition brought home to him the role that ethnicity played in Kenyan elections.
Moi went on to win successive presidential elections all the way to 1997.
It is in 2002 that the governing Kenya African National Union (KANU) was ousted from power by the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) that brought together opposition politicians in a rare display of unity.