Analysts believe it was stitched up before Tshisekedi’s disputed election win last January.

After 18 years in power, Joseph Kabila bowed to international and domestic pressure to step down.

But only until 2023 when he will constitutionally be permitted to run again.

When it became clear his chosen successor Emmanuel Shadary had no chance of winning the election, Kabila entered into a deal with Felix Tshisekedi and ensured that the latter won the poll.

Unable to govern because of the chokehold Kabila’s coalition has on parliament, Tshisekedi’s been forced to enter into a power-sharing deal.

It will enable him to name a prime minister.

But it stymies any hope he might have had of being a reformist president.

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