Audio By Vocalize President William Ruto chats with ODM Party Leader Senator Oburu Oginga during its 20th aniversary in Mombasa.[PCS] There’s something fundamentally unsettling about a political class that claims overwhelming popular support yet simultaneously seeks pre-determined electoral outcomes. In every election cycle, Kenya finds a new vocabulary to sanitise old political habits. This season, the term is zoning, a polite expression for pre-determining leadership outcomes through elite bargains rather than open electoral competition. Its proponents frame it as a tool for inclusion and stability. In reality, zoning is a quiet assault on democratic choice, a mechanism for ring-fencing power…
