Anti-Finance bill protestors demonstrate in Nairobi. July 2, 2024. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]
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Listen Gen Z. Those of you who have decided to vie for elective positions in the next general elections are better off standing as independent candidates. If you must, form a very loose young people coalition under which you can join your efforts to push for a national agenda. The coalition should have short-term rotational leadership from the beginning to avoid creating a central force that will easily be targeted for manipulation by your more experienced and resourced competitors.
Let us face it, other than, ODM, other political parties lack the organisational capacity to withstand wave after wave of new and popular political parties. ODM, with all its weaknesses including patronisation, is the nearest case study we have of a political party with a semblance of functional structures. There are no other parties with a history you can latch onto. But, even within ODM, some sharks can ruin your political dream.
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