Compare Odinga to Tsvangirai is comparing cheese to cyanide impregnated chalk

To compare Kenya's Raila Odinga with Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai is like comparing tasty wholesome Swiss cheese of the finest quality with cheese coloured chalk impregnated with deadly cyanide, even a whiff of chalk dust alone is enough of kill you. The two are politicians just as the cheese and the chalk have the same colour but apart from that the two are totally different. and opposite as would be fatal, with nourishing wholesome Swiss cheese of the finest quality!

1)    Odinga is as smart as whip whilst Tsvangirai is as dumb as dung beetle in a pit.  Whilst, Odinga implement many far reaching democratic reforms when he was Prime Minister in Kenya's GNU following the disputed elections in 2007. Tsvangirai has failed to get even one token democratic reform implemented when he was PM in Zimbabwe's GNU following the country's own disputed 2008 elections.

2)    Odinga is pro-active, Tsvangirai have to sit on hot ambers to get him to react. Kenya's Supreme Court declared null and void the results of the August presidential elections because Odinga and his team were presented the courts with detailed evidence of how the electoral system had been hack to make sure Uhuru Kenyatta are 11% lead regardless what the actual result was.

President Mugabe blatantly rigged the July 2013 elections as nearly one million voters were denied the vote because their details were either deleted from the voters' roll or else posted in some other constituent voters' roll other than the one they expected. The regime increased the number of polling stations from 2 000 to 9 000 just two days before voting day. There is YouTube video evidence of hooded Zanu PF being bussed from one polling station to the next cast multiple votes.

Although Tsvangirai initially challenged the election result in court and the production of the voters' roll would have proven the above vote rigging irregularities plus many, many more beside. The voters' roll was the smoking gun. Why Tsvangirai had accepted contesting the elections without the voters' roll in the first place, itself a constitutional requirement, beggars belief. But even the most forgiving fall off their chair when the learnt that Tsvangirai had withdrawn the legal challenge of the result because "ZEC had failed to furnish us with the voters' roll," he announced. That was nonsense of course; it was for the court to compel ZEC to release the voters' roll. How could the nation have conducted a nation-wide election with no voters' roll!

3)    Odinga is strategic and Tsvangirai does not even have common sense. Following the Kenya Supreme Court ruling annulling the August result, Odinga has already called for the present Election Commissioners, who allowed the fraud to happen in the first place, "resign and face criminal prosecution". Uhuru Kenyatta is insisting that the same commissioners must preside over the re-run.

SADC leaders warned Tsvangirai he should not contest the July 2013 elections with no democratic reforms in place. Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2008 elections and with no reforms in place to stop the vote rigging is was clear the party would rig the vote; that was obvious. MDC leaders ignored the warning and lo and behold Zanu PF blatantly rigged the elections.

Since the rigged July 2013 elections, the opposition have failed to get even one reform implemented. Not one! And yet the opposition is gearing to contest next year's election regardless. They readily accept the elections will be rigged and claim to have devised a Win In Rigged Election (WIRE) strategy. It turns out these are nothing but rehashed voter education and mobilisation plans that have had little success against Zanu PF's well-funded and sophisticated vote rigging schemes.

The reckless folly of Tsvangirai and his opposition friends defies common sense!
Kenya had failed to live up to its full economic potential because of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption under the de facto one-party dictatorship Jommo Kenyatta, the country's first post-independence president fostered on the nation. Just as Zimbabwe has failed to live up to her full economic potential under this corrupt and tyrannical one-party dictatorship President Mugabe has fostered on the nation.

When Raila Odinga was given the golden opportunity to dismantle Kenya's entrenched dictatorship during the GNU, he seized the opportunity with both hands and laid a solid foundation for a healthy and functional democracy. Sadly, Morgan Tsvangirai wasted his chance to implement reforms when he was given a similar chance. He is insisting in contesting a flawed election on the basis of mind-numbing logic that he can win rigged elections.
So, instead of implementing the democratic reforms and put the nation on a solid democratic footing in which the issue of free, fair and credible election is finally settled leaving the nation to focus of other pressing matters like economic policies. There will be no reforms implemented and the incumbent regime will have the licence to rig the vote and the challenge for the opposition is to win rigged elections.

Instead of Tsvangirai delivering democratic change to end the Zanu PF dictatorship he has given the dictatorship a democratic façade and a new lease of life! He has thrown out the traditional demand for elections to free, fair and credible, he has devised strategies of winning rigged elections! Zimbabweans can look forward to many, many rigged elections. Why bother implement an reforms and deny the opposition the challenge of devising strategies of winning rigged elections!  

Of all the stupid ideas, I have ever heard winning rigged elections takes the biscuit!