The recently concluded American election has depicted Kenya's 2007 general election that saw opposition candidate Raila Odinga challenge the results citing election rigging.
Despite several US leading media houses indicating Democratic candidate Joe Biden won the November 3rd presidential elections outgoing President Donald Trump has refused to concede on unfounded rigging allegations, echoing Kenya’s disputed 2007 elections.
Then there were allegations of planned rigging in the countdown to voting day
Unlike in Kenya’s case, the wide consensus in the US and abroad is that Democratic candidate Joe Biden won fair and square.
After the November 3 US elections, President Donald Trump and his supporters have re-enacted scenes from the Wild West, the period in the 19th century when gangsterism held sway in huge swathes of America.
Except for widespread physical violence, this year’s US moment of electoral madness resembles one in Kenya 13 years ago. The only difference is that while Americans quickly intervened to help us restore sanity – then US President George Bush immediately dispatched to Nairobi Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice – Kenyans can only watch in amusement and perhaps pray for the outgoing president.
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