Happy birthday Mr President, lakini wembe una uchungu

One year later, Jubilee on the right track?
Today marks the first anniversary of the Jubilee government tenure in office since the repeat polls in October 26, 2017.
The goverment led by President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto was elected after the first poll was cancelled by Kenya's Supreme Court citing irregularities, and ordered a new one within 60 days.
The election commission had declared incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta the winner by a margin of 1.4 million votes.
Raila Odinga, Uhuru's opponent, said the commission was "rotten and demanded their resignation.
President Uhuru would later in October clinch the seat with  7,483,895 votes out of the 7,616,217 valid votes cast.
The Opposition however did not take part in the repeat poll as NASA supporters barred IEBC officials from delivering voting material and engaged police in running battles.
Raila had pulled out of the race two weeks before the election saying it would be skewed like the first poll.
He further went on to give the electoral commission 11 irreducible minimum demands which it wanted to be addressed before agreeing to participate in the repeat presidential election.
However a year down the road, change has happened in the country, both positive and negative.

1. The handshake
Early this year President Uhuru and Opposition leader Raila met for talks that led to uniting the country with the two leaders agreeing to work together to drive the country forward politically and economically.
This was after Odinga’s “swearing-in” on January 30 which  temporarily jolted the talks as the Jubilee government had questioned the opposition leader’s sincerity towards nation healing.
The two leaders would then form a Building Bridges to help come up with solutions to address challenges outlined in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the two leaders.
Among the issues the taskforce has been addressing include divisive elections, corruption and ethnic antagonism.

2. 2022 Agenda
Leaders from across the politica divide have taken to public rallies with each pushing for their preffered candidate in the 2022 general elections.
Opposition leaders have revived the Raila Presidential agenda in their meetings while those from the Rift Valley are openly backing DP Ruto in his 2022 bid.
A section of leaders from Mt Kenya have however openly rejected this bid saying President Uhuru should be given time and space to fulfil his Big Four Agenda promised to Kenyans in the polls.
Some have openly defied calls by President Uhuru to stop the 2022 elections debate and drummed up support Ruto.
The leaders drawn from Rift Valley and Central regions expressed support for Ruto's 2022 presidential ambitions.

3. Referendum call
The political class is split on NASA leader Raila Odinga’s call for a referendum next year.
ODM politicians  have proposed a referendum after the 14-member Building Bridges initiative team has submitted its report.
Some politicians across the divide have supported the call.
Others said a referendum is uncalled-for. Jubilee's Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichung’wa said the calls are baseless and only meant to few powerful positions for “some individuals”.

I would pen abit more but let us save some more for the coming year because as they say, Rome was not built in a day.
Happy Birthday Mr president.