Raila Odinga has died at a time when Kenya was looking forward to holding Presidential Elections in 2027 where he was anticipated to participate as a Presidential Candidate.
As opposition leader, Odinga lost all five of his presidential campaigns, with two of the votes leading to chaotic bouts of bloodletting and recrimination a decade apart. Raila is on record for rejecting the results from all the five Presidential Elections he has participated in. He led the protests after the disputed 2007 election that plunged the country into its most serious episode of political violence since independence. About 1,300 people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced from their homes in the battles.
Raila also participated in the recent GenZ led demonstrations that rocked several Kenyan cities where some youths lost their lives, properties were destroyed including the building housing the Ugandan Embassy in Nairobi.