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IEBC Chair Erastus Ethekon.
The presidential election in Kenya is gunpowder. Whenever it is touched off, the blast rocks the country. It did so, 19 years ago. It could do so again, provided that the electoral authority elects to repeat the mistakes of history.
Election panic is in the air, now that the constitutional election date is one year away, tomorrow 10 August. Sundry itchy fingers are all over the place, testing all manner of tactical electoral keyboards. In State House, President William Ruto is receiving one massive delegation after the other in an electoral charm offensive.
It is instructive that Prof Kithure Kindiki is conspicuously absent from these State House jamborees. But this is a side matter for another day. Ikulu Nairobi has become the home of largesse and good words. The air is rife with confidence building and mutual assurances between the President and his visitors.
