The New Times (Kigali)
11 July 2008
On Thursday, April 17, Raila Odinga was sworn in as Prime Minister of Kenya. This saw the official creation of a coalition government between President Mwai Kibaki's Party of National Unity (PNU) and Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) - a power-sharing deal that was meant to stop the blood-letting and mayhem that was visited on Kenya and the entire region, following disputed ...
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This article's author is making some assumptions on the Kenyan situation that are totally wrong and baseless. First the rigging that took place in Kenya's election was two-sided and observers did not point a finger at Kibaki as the only guilty party( nor did they point at Odinga). All they said was that the poll was flawed. Secondly, ODM's 99 seats to PNU's 43 would not be an ideal parameter to measure the purposed big win for ODM. PNU went to the polls with an arrangement with other parties to field candidates in the areas where they were popular and did not field their own candidates. KANU,FORD people,Safina,NArc Kenya, Ford Kenya and Sisi Kwa Sisi are just a few of these parties. When the totals for these parties are put together with those of PNU the totals come to about 90 seats. The majority here was very slim.Third, Kenya needed reconciliation