Preliminary Thoughts On Imposed Power Sharing

It appears quite in order to ask one simple question: why is power sharing being forced down Kenya's throat? It is clear that neither ODM nor PNU wanted power sharing. They all wanted everything.

Read more from Muciimi Mbatia here.

What do PNU people really think?

On the Presidency
We do not believe that Mwai Kibaki is the legitimate president of Kenya but he is the legal president of Kenya.

On ethnicity--Hamisi's article features a slur against the Agikuyu, claiming that they do not want to compromise, that Mwai Kibaki would be disgracing himself if he compromised.

On the speedy, stealthy inaugurationThere was a real air of uncertainty surrounding the country at the time with riots and violence in the western city of Kisumu.

A combined article by Vitalis Oyudo and Stephen Wainaina. Read more here.

Too Close to Call

You could cut the tension in Nairobi with a knife, everyone seems to have taken sides and even those who have not, are fully aware that this is a high stakes affair with a sense of doom written all over it.

The air is rife with rumours, most of them about an attempt by the government to rig the election. Other topics of fervent discussion include allegations that the government will not hand over to the ODM should it be beaten on Thursday.

Read more from Maina Gichangi.

User's guide to beating ODM

Stephen Wanyama publishes a list of proposals that the PNU could adopt in catching up with an overtaking the ODM party at the polls. This follows polls results that show the Party of National Unity is lagging behind in almost all the provinces.

There are many Kenyans who see this year's election as a titanic battle between good and evil. I don't quite share that view, my opinion being that both sides have let Kenya down immensely.

Read more here.

The Right Not to Vote

I consider myself a responsible and fully-paid up member of my society. I participate in the PTA at my daughter's school, and I am involved in the neighborhood council.

We do not do anything too exciting in our council; it's only putting together the funds for the refuse collection, and that for the neighborhood guards. We also put money together for the resurfacing of the road that passes through our little enclave.

It is an enclave alright, and we are its little government. We have blocked the two entrances to our road. We have put up a ten-foot wall on the one-end, with electric fencing at the top; and we have a massive gate (again with electric fencing on top) at the front-end. At the gate we have two guards, ex-policemen who are under instruction not to let anyone come uninvited into our little piece of calm and tranquility. We have long given up on the ability of the local government and the central government to deliver the services we should properly expect from our taxes.

Annette Keino demonstrates why none of the political parties nor the candidates that represent them are worthy of her vote. Read more here.

Kibaki's new Democracy

Is it possible, that the decision by Kibaki to go for a PNU arrangement with an array of parties supporting him but remaining distinct, may lead to enhanced democracy in Kenya?


Kamale T analyses President Kibaki's strategy for the next general election. Read more here.

ODM’s fatal flaw and Kibaki’s masterstroke

Even the neutral observer must have felt that the laid-back campaign style of the Kibaki team was denying us a true contest in the election year.

While ODM went about the country winning converts in mass rallies, the forces around President Kibaki seemed destined for another performance like the 2005 referendum where they waged an incompetent campaign and doomed themselves to an easy defeat.

Read more from Amir Ibrahim here.