I do not quite understand why ODM alone should be the focus of your negative attention in matters in which it comes out better than all the others. All the other parties have never held elections - even shambolic ones. Most are still operating with interim officials not sanctioned by the current membership. Yet you pick on the one that has held grassroots elections on a regular basis for your most severe tongue lashing. It sounds totally unfair.
I can see that you just want to play with words; that's OK, but, for the sake of your party, I hope you internally acknowledge the real issues. Actually, ODM is pretty much just Raila these days; so is CORD. Even if we disagree on that, the high-level riggings, MIB, and other suchlike mischief obviously have Raila's blessings and sometimes are instigated by him. What Raila really needs is good, honest, objective advice, not clever spin.
On Siaya, I was hoping to read your "complex-issues" explanation of why Oduol was rigged out; I take it none will be forthcoming.
In principle then all political parties in Kenya belong to some big name somewhere. Some have actually been bought with hard cash and hence are owned goods and chattels of the said individuals. ODM on the other hand was formed out of common interests and remains so. A party liked TNA belongs to Uhuru.
We should leave other parties out of it. I wrote specifically about Raila/ODM/CORD, and specifically to you, because you have been busy here peddling that lot. If someone does the same with respect to TNA, Jubilee, URP, XYZ, I will write on that as appropriate. Also:
If we are discussing ODM in Kenya and are suggesting it falls below existing standards, it is only fair to shine the same light on other parties. Upon what yardstick then are you measuring ODM? Is it standardized? How are the other parties scoring? This is akin to a teacher punishing the best performer more harshly than the poorest mshika mkia.
On Oduor, I do not recollect any evidence of any rigging. I believe you are a victim of media sensationalism. His love for the media caught up with him when photos of his battered wife emerged. Anyway, he threw caution to the winds and openly ran on a TNA ticket. I am glad the wife beater was rejected by the people of Siaya.
* Popular elections are not worth much if they are rigged.
I am not aware of any rigged elections, are you?
* Your side should try to behave for its own good; so it is self-defeating to misbehave on the grounds that others too are dong it.
ODM has not tried to copy other parties. If we were to do that there would have been no grassroots elections or National Elections.
* CORD's main competition does not seem to suffer from the little circuses that keep CORD busy; right now they already know their flag-bearers for 2017 and are busy tightening things while CORD's leadership is engaged in bizarre quarrels.
1. What little circuses are these that are unique to CORD? There have been leadership wrangles in all Jubilee parties. Have you heard of Chama Cha Mashinani? Did you not see KANU fielding a candidate in Kericho in a fratricidal war? Did not Jubilee lose an MCA to Mashinani?
2. How was the Jubilee candidate get known? Was there a delegates conference which CORD has not yet summoned? Were there grassroots elections? Caucuses? How was he elected? In fact there is no party that has conducted any nomination. Yet these same parties are using their surrogates in CORD to call for a candidate in the hope that the losers will bolt to Jubilee.
3. There is no quarrel in CORD. We have two disgruntled persons who went missing when the party needed them most and are hiding their shame by trying to reward their masters with a manufactured crisis that isn't picking traction. That said there is party on earth that does not have internal disagreements. Perhaps if you allow me to write more about other parties I would give you examples.
4. You refer to Jubilee as tightening things. I disagree. Jubilee is in a mess. It is trying to create JAP to ensure a 6 piece suit. That won't work and in fact we foresee getting a few CORD MPs and governors over there based on the fallout we expect. We did get some MPs from Meru and Nakuru.
5. Jubilee is no party. It is now run by the Provincial Administration, CID and NSIS with government funds. Come September 2017 and it will die of natural causes when they all get booted out of office. CORD / ODM is fighting the government and not a political party. The arrests, harassment and intimidation is being carried out by these state agencies and bodies. Therefore our operations have been adopted to cater for that. You saw me kicked out of choo.com on the orders of the state (IP banned and any new handles deleted minutes after registration). A further attempt made to hack my computer and the arrest of a man whose phone I used to logon to social media. We have a desperate regime in down fall and panic mode.
