Of late, Cord has been displaying cry-baby syndromes.
Opposition big wigs including Raila Odinga, Musalia Mudavadi and Eseli Simuyu have differently complained that the Jubilee Alliance Party’s recent trooping to State House for their much-hipped merger with 12 parties was illegal and unconstitutional.
Nothing can be further from the truth.
The existence of Cord is a guarantee enough against the slide back to one-party hegemony as witnessed during the former Nyayo regime of Kenya’s third president, Daniel Moi.
From history, Kenyans are aware that to achieve a one party or monolithic state as Raila claimed immediately Jubilee hinted at their merger from the State House Lawns in Nairobi, multi-party democracy must be abolished by a constitutional amendment, as was done in 1982 when Moi and KANU through Parliament amended by inserting Section 2A that outlawed any other political party in Kenya.
The creation of the Jubilee party does not mean the abolition of all other parties in Kenya, and the Cord brigade and other political parties in the opposition including Ford Kenya and the Amani Coalition of Musalia Mudavadi should know better and follow suit instead of them being cry-babies.
Politically speaking, bigger parties are always in a better position to capture power as opposed to single entities that are perceived as ethnic-based.
For Raila's ODM, Musyoka’s Wiper Party, and Wetangula’s Ford Kenya, to make any meaningful challenge to the incumbent President Kenyatta they have to borrow from Jubilee’s script and merge to be a formidable force to the ruling Coalition.
Nothing wrong with party mergers in my view, that is democracy.