KARUA VS RIGATHI - WHO IS A MASTERSTROKE?
The past week has seen increased pollical activity as expected in the country and a renewed energy and campaign ado. Rightly so, these activities have been prompted by the fact that we now have complete and well defined presidential tickets for the main political groupings Kenya Kwanza and Azimio. Both tickets are dynamic in their own right. The dye is cast, the battle lines drawn, and the race in chief underway. First off, Dr William Ruto picked the honourable Rigathi Gachagua as his running mate making a scary ChaguaRuto ticket whichever way you look at it. It is scary, first in a political sense, because both the deputy president and Rigathi are quite abrasive in their politics. Scary, also, if you are the kind that has bought into the scaremongering that has gone on for quite too long in our politics by their detractors. Scary finally, because that ticket either removes completely or greatly diminishes the Uhuru factor in the central Kenya equation. Scary nonetheles...