THE STANDARD POLITICS ODM leader Raila Odinga addresses a rally in Voi, Taita Taveta County yesterday. [Emmanuel Wanson, Standard] ODM leader Raila Odinga has asked Coast leaders to stop the clamour for a regional party at a time when they are working to unite the country through the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). Raila said the idea of regional parties has outlived its usefulness and urged those agitating for it to join other larger parties with a national outlook. He said regional parties will dismember the country into tribal cocoons instead of the national unity espoused in the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill 2020.