In the General Elections last year, the Umbrella for Democratic Change emerged with a parliamentary majority so large that it even shocked the UDC itself.
The party is yet to provide an account of how they achieved that.
Yet even before that, a narrative is already gaining ground that such victory was from the start inevitable.
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