Amidst Nomination Chaos, ODM Triumps

With calm returning after the seemingly chaotic primaries, may be t'would be prudent at this time to throw a different scope at the situation and hopefully pick some roses out of these thorns. It may turn out to have been very wise for Justice Kwach and his Group to attempt replacing popular candidates with those rejected at local level if one can forecast into the not too distant future when the ODM government introduces Devolution. In a two tier system, it would be safe to confine the like of Orengo, Kajwang and others to national representation while you have leaders like Rege, Ogindo and the likes closer to the people. This is because, some of these former MPs are very effective at national level but fail very miserably at local representation. By sending these people frindly Leaders to parliament, we've in fact created a situation where the losers may turn out as our local leaders.
 
If that didn't convice you then let us try another reason: Assuming the Bomas Draft is not altered and it becomes our Blueprint, The Cabinet will nolonger consist of the MPs, instead, they'll be appointed from among professionals who would be vetted by the parliamet to provide for effective checks and balances. This would mean that by electing the best to Parliament, we will have left a loop hole where the losers may find themselves in the Cabinet and they will. In actual sense, we will have confined some of our best brains to parliament while the executive is run by those we rejected.
 
Finally, ODM is best placed to use the TWO TIER argument to bring back those who defected to other parties and even influence voting to their favor. Those who lost must realise that only in ODM are they almost guaranteed a second chance at leadership. PNU cannot provide this because in their system, you lose nomination; you lose prospects for leadership for another five years. In essence, ODM provides a softer landing than any other party after Dec. 27 should they win.

Bill Ouko