Photo: From Left William Ruto, Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga (Source/Standard.co.ke).
It's no doubt that Kenyans are looking forward to two historic intrigues between now and 2022. Uhuru Kenyatta's unprecedented handshake with ODM honcho birthed Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) which is about to cast the country into a plebiscite process.
BBI has heuristic solutions to pertinent issues which have for decades now wrecked havoc to the country's social, economic and political spheres. Uhuru and Raila are leading BBI proponents with William Ruto leading a 'NO' army. This division and grouping makes the referendum exercise worth an attention.
Succession politics has equally left Kenyans drooling. Curtains are expected to fold in eighteen months time to signify the end of Uhuru's ten-year act. This automatically means Kenyans should brace themselves to have their fifth president.
Hitherto, William and Raila are the front runners in a quest to succeed Kenyatta's son. Naturally, Samoei is Jubilee Party successor but the frosty relationship between him and his boss has dampened his chances.
Agwambo is scheming to earn Muigai's endorsement but as everything else, his anticipations may turn out to be a mere pipedream. Uhuru has since hinted that his 2022 choice will shock many and as long as Ecclesiastes 1:9 lives, there is nothing new under the sun, what happened before is likely set to happen again.
Uhuru is possibly plotting to do that his foster father did years ago. Prior to 2002 elections, Daniel Moi did the unimaginable; his lots fell on Uhuru Kenyatta, a political neophyte as his preffered successor. Raila Odinga and George Saitoti were angling to earn Nyayo's endorsement but that remained as that; an anticipation.
If Uhuru's, 'My 2022 choice will shock many' statement is anything to go by, then he will predictably pull a shocker by choosing Gideon Moi as his preffered inheritor. The latter is currently breaking his political coon in Rift Valley with BBI giving him a chance to dismount William Ruto who has remained to be region's defacto kingpin.
Moi and Kenyatta were great comrades and associates. The former become Kenya's second president after Jomo's untimely death. As his days drew nigh, he returned the power baton to its 'rightful' owner; Uhuru Kenyatta.
Up to his death, William Ruto and Daniel Moi were not the greatest friends. To at least honor and rever his political father, Uhuru will likely handle the power baton to Moi's son. Gideon may fail to became Kenya's fifth president but Uhuru will have done that which was expected of him.
Should that happen, Gideon will have to put more personal efforts to occupy that which his father occupied. As Agwambo and Saitoti felt shortchanged in 2002 so will Ruto and Raila feel in 2002.