Voting in Kenya, the pattern Pre-2017 polls
Since the onset of multi party politics in Kenya in the early 90s, politicians contesting for the biggest seats in the land and who have consequently won are guided by apt plans and strategies that have ensured they rout their opponents. Like any other developing nation, Kenyan politics are rarely driven by agenda or well laid-out party manifesto. They are guided by tribal sway, greed, euphoria and to an extent mob oratory. In 1992, in the first ever multi-party elections in the country, the then incumbent Daniel Arap Moi managed to infiltrate the opposition because most of the presidential candidates were driven by an insentience need to get power. It’s through greed that the opposition was unable to form a solid and formidable force to get rid of Moi and in 1997, the same selfish drive was replicated. In the 2002 general elections, the opposition with no viable way of defeating Moi’s protégé Uhuru Kenyatta unless they all worked together, managed to fan enough euphoria to sec