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If the Opposition wants to represent change, it must be seen to break with the past. Kenyan politics has entered a defining moment. For perhaps the first time in years, the national conversation is no longer about replacing one administration with another.
Increasingly, it is about replacing an entire political culture. Across the country, citizens are expressing frustration deeper than dissatisfaction with the government. They are questioning a governance model marked by graft, growing debt, impunity, high taxation, weak accountability, and politics driven more by elite bargains than public interest.
This is why the Opposition faces an enormous opportunity and responsibility. Its greatest asset is not any leader. It is public belief that genuine change may finally be possible. That belief is fragile. It can be strengthened by wise choices or destroyed by careless ones. One choice concerns who should shape and symbolise the Opposition. Former President Uhuru Kenyatta remains influential. He served two terms and retains relationships across the political spectrum. His experience matters.
But influence and suitability are not the same thing. If the Opposition’s central message is that Kenya needs a decisive break from the politics that produced today’s economic and governance challenges, then allowing a former president closely associated with the previous order to be the public face or principal organiser of that movement risks weakening its credibility.
