THE BEST PRESIDENT KENYA WILL NEVER HAVE…’JAKOM’

  koderoh Politics.

He will be remembered, at least in the political scene, as the most charismatic politician to ever grace the Earth or the solar system as one of my friends pointed out to me. The outgoing Kenyans Prime minister has fought many battles that have seen him emerge victorious, but one battle he seemed never to win, not once, not twice but thrice, that battle was the battle to head our great Nation, Kenya.
His first stab at the presidency was in 1997, and again he went for it in 2007 and 2013 Raila Amollo Odinga, the son of the first vice president of Kenya Jaramogi Oginga Odinga was in the race to head the nation again, but failed short of ascending to the top seat once more.  While he has been known to overcome great challenges and rise above hard political situations and hurdles, it seems the Son of Jaramogi could not rise beyond becoming the Prime Minister of the republic of Kenya.
Well, this might sound like an obituary on the person of Raila Odinga, but truth be told, as I write this, I do know that I am most likely writing his obituary in the political scene, not that it has not been written before and after three days he rose from it. But the current tide has swept the once great politician we knew. This will be a different obituary, for Raila is a great nationalist that must be remembered for generations to come, that I cannot burry.
In the 48 Rules of power, one is, this usually stands out for me ‘’Never Outwit the Master’’ Well in 2002, it was Raila Odinga who outwitted the master. He is highly credited for bringing to an end the 24 year old reign of President Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi. Yes, Moi was a professor of politics himself. Today, it is the very student of the outgoing Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who is William Ruto that will largely be credited for sending the most enigmatic politician of our times back home.
While it has been such an anticlimax to the end of a great political career, I am sure when the historians will be looking back at the person of the outgoing Prime Minister Raila Odinga they will have a lot to say about him. His contribution to the widely enjoyed democracy in the country today will highlight his greatest achievement and contribution to Kenya. The new constitution will also be highly accredited to him as he is the one who led Kenyans to reject a bad document in the year 2005, in a referendum.
Also when historians and upcoming politicians will be looking back, they will be drawing great lessons from Raila Odinga’s life in national politics. As the son of Jaramogi, fondly known by his people as ‘’Owadgi Akinyi’’ exit the National politics heads down, we will remember his witty ‘Vitendawilis’ that worked up the crowds, who demanded for them every time after he addressed them, while they chanted back the answers to this ‘’vintedawilis’’ with chants of ‘’Baba or Jakom’’
As I bid a man I have been made to believe would changed our nation and unite Kenyans from across the divide good bye from politics, at least as I see it, I am encouraged to remember and record that no man commands such a myriad number of names, for his fanatics; for he commands a fanatical following among a great section of Kenyans, he is known as; ‘Tinga’ ‘Agwambo’ and ‘Wuod Mary’ among other names which will be coming down this article.

As Raila walks of the stage, after a great show but very few claps and chants, leaving many crying and confused, the words of The Late (May his Soul Rest in Peace) Michael Kijana Wamalawa rings loud in my mind ‘’Those who loves him, loves him with a Passion, and those who hates him, hates him with a passion’’ Kijana sums his statement in two words that will forever remain etched in the minds of many ‘RailaMania’ and ‘RailaPhobia’’ as to why he was loved as a politician to those height beats logics and as to why he was hated as a politician that much also beats logic.
For many on this day that Raila is about to talk to the nation and give his people/supporters a way forward, I feel, that he should exit the stage, for the play has been long, sometimes entertaining, sometimes boring, but largely in part he has kept us glued, many newspapers have been sold just because his portrait was in the front page, many careers have been build and ended under him, Raila was a brand and if he was a sports man, his name would probably be worth billions of shillings just for endorsement deals..
It is the greatest anticlimax for his supporters, as they will more likely never celebrate in the streets on Nairobi, Kisumu, Mombasa, Nakuru and all the streets of Kenya Chanting, ‘Baba’ ‘Jakom’ ‘Tinga’ ‘Agwambo’ ‘Wuod Nyalego’ ‘Wuon Fidel’ among the myriad names the Son of Jaramogi has under his belts. For his supporters are known to be extravagant and would have brought the country to an almost standstill for a couple of hours, but I guess we will have to miss that show, it would have been the carnival of all the carnivals.
His name, will probably remain the greatest referee for most politicians upcoming and outgoing, some will attest that a political battle with Raila Odinga has handed them immature political deaths, and some owe him for their political careers. Also as a nation and generation we owe Raila almost more than our lives. It is because of him, the basic rights of human beings, we take for granted today.
But even as such, leaders are chosen by God, the twist is, even when the human kind was given a choice between Jesus and Barnabas, we settled on Barnabas and God granted us our wish. So God must have given us the Leader we deserve in the place of the Leader I wanted.
 Thus this far he has brought us, who believed and still believe in him, I strongly feel that his time is up. Raila can choose to walk away from the National limelight as a politician and retire from active politics, that way he still walks with his head high and admits that the democracy he fought for has probably haunt him, in a political way, out of politics.
The greatest Dilemma that he leaves upon his supporters now, is what political direction do we take?!
Ne waheri Jakom, lakini Jo Kenya nene oneno ma opogore kodwa.