Did The Next President of Kenya Attend This Meeting?

Raila’s Well Laid Plans For The Presidency of Kenya

Raila's game plan is beginning to take shape even as his popularity amongst the Kenyan public has risen to an all-time high.

Last week a very interesting meeting took place at Serena Hotel. Ironically the very same venue where the-now-dead Narc, the coalition that swept President Kibaki to power was born.

Of special interest to this writer was the late announcement by Najib Balala that he too was interested in vying for the Presidency. Hon Balala is a Raila man and chances are high that some last minute calculations by Agwambo showed that arithmetically he was not upto date in this summit group that met at Serena. You see all indications are that this group will stick it out (at least most of them) until the general elections. Meaning that decisions made by these “contenders for the presidency” will hold.

Raila now has a clear numerical advantage and is well on his way to winning the ODM nomination to stand for the Presidency. Kalonzo Musyoka is just playing politics because he already knows that he is not "the one." In fact his handlers already have a political party organized for him to use to run the presidency. The only detail that is yet to be ironed out is "financing".

As we have often said in this blog, there is nobody amongst the generation that messed the country that is more deserving of the presidency than Raila Odinga. However there are two major obstacles that are against his winning the presidency.

i) The great growth in awareness amongst the younger generation in Kenya and their determination to make an impact in Kenyan politics by ditching the entire bunch of current politicians.

ii) The great distrust that key would-be supporters still feel towards Raila.


Read a detailed report of the Serena meeting. Did the next President of Kenya attend this meeting?