Opportunity knocks for opposition! But will anybody dare open the door?

This picture is one that has saliently been on the drawing board since the first quarter of 2018, almost taking the country to an American-style election of long drawn out campaigns. As October draws nearer, it is increasingly clear there are only two extremes worth paying attention to.

There have been as fiercely contested elections – 1994 and 2014 – but none focused on the sustenance of the status quo or change of government in this manner. Never has this country been this spoilt for choice – perhaps not of stark ideological choice – but one very interesting enough to limit scope. The BDP contests to maintain a continuing stranglehold on governing. The UDC, along with its newly found bedfellows that is the BPF, wants to bring an end to BDP’s stay in power.