Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga  suffered a setback Saturday, losing the African Union Commission chairperson race to Djibouti’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mahmoud Youssouf, in what several delegates told the Sunday Standard was “surprising”.

However, as we established, a mix of last-minute blunders and shifting dynamics could have cost the opposition veteran, who has lost five bids to be Kenya’s president, the coveted position, prolonging his life-long search for the elusive win.