It is clear that the genuine purpose of the NASA coalition is steadily plunging into oblivion and will be replaced by a new outfit. ODM party leader Raila Odinga has now embarked on strengthening his ODM party, a key pointer being the calling for an NEC meeting.
It is obvious that Raila himself no longer endeavours to stand by his political protestations to the end - for no man will die in defense of something in which he does not believe in - by making increasing demands on his rather fanatic support base.
Indeed, the greater the measure of his own insincerity, the more unfortunate and inconsiderate his claims on his party adherents becomes. He is throwing aside the last vestiges of true leadership and beginning to play dirty politics. He always exalts himself arrogantly and is good in dividing people into camps and intimidating other groups to survive.
This means that he has become one of those whose only consistency is their inconsistency, associated with overbearing insolence and oftentimes an artful mendacity developed to a shamelessly high degree.
Should he, to the misfortune of all decent people, succeed in becoming president, it is clear from the outset that for him the essence of political activity consists in a heroic struggle to keep permanent hold on this milk-bottle as a source of livelihood for himself and his family.
The more his wife and children are dependent on him, the more stubbornly he fights to maintain for himself the representation of his leadership. For that reason any other person who gives evidence of political capacity is his personal enemy. In every new association, he has apprehended the possible beginning of his own downfall. And everyone who is a better man than himself will appear to him in the light of a menace.
Raila is a leader who has abandoned the platform founded on his general principles, because he recognized the foundation as false, and can act with honour only when he declares his readiness to accept the final consequences of his erroneous views. In such a case, he ought to refrain from taking public part in any further political activity. Having many times wandered and committed basic political blunders, he may possibly go astray once again. But, anyhow, he has no right whatsoever to expect or demand that his fellow citizens should continue to give him their support.
When confronted with the obstinate stupidity of his fellow followers, he always refrains from pushing forward the measures which he deems to be of vital necessity to their lives.
It is in such circumstances he always finds himself face to face with an insoluble contradiction between his own political insight on one hand and, on the other, his moral integrity, or, better still, his sense of honesty.
His followers never draw the line between public duty and personal honour. He never as a genuine leader renounces the idea of degrading himself to the level of a political jobber.
As a jobber, Raila feels the itch to play politics, seeing that his final responsibility will never rest with him personally but with an anonymous mass which will never be called to account for their deeds.
Raila honestly believes that human progress does not originate in the composite brains of the majority but in the brain of an individual. The people see him as essential for keeping their lives in balance and observing harmony. He is the de facto leader at the top of the social hierarchy. Next to him, are the most powerful viziers (governors, senators and MPs), the executive heads of the bureaucracy. Under them are the royal overseers (administrators) such as the infamous men in black who ensure they carry out his orders even without pay. At the bottom of the hierarchy are the poor masses, artisans, farmers, labourers and jobless youth.