Cord leaders Raila Odinga and Bungoma senator Moses Wetangula wave to the crowd at Migori County Stadium during the tour of Saba Saba rallies on June 13, 2014

Raila’s political career is in the brink; a new dawn and a new strategy is required.

Raila is a man who strolled into the Kenyan politics with persuasive policies of social justice, freedom of expression and rewards to meritocracy instead of mediocrity witnessed during the Kanu era.

These are policies that were and still are in sync with what many Kenyans need. His political philosophies are often punctuated with humour and a steely sense of what it will take Kenya to be what it is meant to be: a developed, corruption free modern state.

A politician of cunning, often beguiling artistry who has remained a cult hero to many Kenyans is sliding fast from what he has preached and stood for.

Since he “lost” in the 2013 presidential elections, Raila’s political gaffes have been on the rise with many of his political supporters questioning his capacity to run this country. His political demise has been coming for years, although in the month of April the pace has changed from a stroll towards the gates of hell into a lightening dash towards oblivion.

The writing is on the wall, only the blind and less intelligent will fail to take note.

This sad innocuous journey can be traced to the bungled ODM party elections at Kasarani which were clumsily presided by his truly; Raila Amollo Odinga’s brigades.

Instead of staying put to try salvaging the wreckage, he took off to the United States of America on the premise of going to give talks abroad. Before he left for the US he had appointed a team to look into what led to the chaos in Kasarani, which was not a good idea but was at least palatable.

On coming back, he summoned the protagonists where he callously appointed bloated party officials without ever making public of the findings from the team he had earlier constituted.

Since then, the Raila story has been a tale of irrational managerial of party affairs as well as mastery of double speak.

The Kajiado central and Malindi by election elevated his political standings, albeit with little political significance since those seats were previously held by his party.

Instead of using these victories to rebuild his image, Raila continued to be sucked into the murky waters of corruption; the Ababu Namwamba’s tape.

The polls makes grim reading but Raila continues by not heeding the telltale signs. His skipping of Wetangula’s presidential launch has served the final nail in the coffin of RAO’s 2017 presidential bid.

His defenders, always from his backyard, on noticing RAO’ S blunder were quick to issue conflicting explanations why Raila skipped Wetangula’s Launch. But all these were just but PR stunts which Kenya is got used to.

Raila’s erratic, sometimes inexplicable political decisions have killed a dream that most Kenyans envisaged through him. But his ardent supporters continue to compare him with the proverbial.