The failure by Cord to meet the one million signature cut-off required to initiate the Okoa Kenya movement marks the latest in a series of self-inflicted setbacks that continue to undermine the coalition’s political future.
For starters, it is difficult to fathom how Cord could have bungled Okoa, an initiative it launched with extravagant fanfare two years ago, and which would have, ideally, had a significant bearing on its own prospects in the General Elections next year.