Followers Do Not Make Good Leaders

[The Star]Musalia Mudavadi tells us that, "I would be comfortable working with Ruto." (The Standard, 29 July 2012). Ruto considers he might be comfortable working with Uhuru. Uhuru considers he might be comfortable working with Mudavadi. All this is not leadership. It is followership. Running alone they offer no leadership. They have no history of leadership. They have a history of holding office. But holding office is not the same as leadership. They all owed their offices for years to a patron, Moi, in whose gift