Supporters of Kenya's National Super Alliance (Nasa) celebrate after the Supreme Court ordered a re-run of the August 8 presidential poll in Nairobi on September 1, 2017. [Photo: nation.co.ke]Former Government Adviser and current Africa Policy Institute Executive Director Prof Peter Kagwanja has said that NASA has got nothing to celebrate about.This is after the Supreme Court on Friday upheld the petition the coalition had filed at the apex court which culminated in the nullification of President Uhuru Kenyatta's reelection.Kagwanja says that the court has only delivered 'half victory' to Nasa flag bearer Raila Odinga."Admittedly, a new election is a burden to NASA. Like Jubilee, NASA has to mobilise huge finances for campaigns at a short notice.Notably, NASA principals, with the exception of Senator Moses Wetang’ula, are literally jobless," Kagwanja says in a column in the Sunday Nation.He notes that one scenario from a repeat election is an Odinga victory in the presidential contest which will come with a bounty of challenges."Despite the reprieve from the Supreme Court, all odds are stacked against NASA which has lost Parliament, Senate, Woman Reps, Governors and Members of County Assemblies to Jubilee. Out-numbered, out-gunned 'President Odinga' cannot govern," he says.He adds: "The best case scenario for Odinga is a negotiated power-sharing arrangement with the Jubilee majority. But Jubilee has ruled out any 'nusu-mkate' (power-sharing government) and hit the campaign trail starting with Nairobi. Kenyans should belt up, we are headed for a rough 60-day patch."

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