Despite insisting that Raila Odinga switched his phone off during the mock swearing-in early this year, ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi now says he did not support the process after all.
Last week, Raila seemingly dodged the controversial swearing-in matter which arguably precipitated cracks within NASA coalition.
"Those who wanted to come , came and those who did not, that was there choice. I can't say more than that," he told Citizen TV.
But in an interview with the Sunday Nation, Mudavadi has conceded that along with Moses Wetangula and Kalonzo Musyoka, they may have skipped the event since it was not lawful.
"The long and short of this was a constitutional matter. Those who were for it had their own reasoning but some of us were not for it," he said, adding that their credentials were at stake.
He added: "We strongly felt much as it looked like a populist exercise, it had no legal value. One can only take power through constitutional means."
His latest confession may vindicate Raila, who has been bashed before by Wetangula for allegedly betraying the NASA team.
And after swearing-in, Raila would later reconcile with President Uhuru Kenyatta, further again catching his colleagues flat-footed.