Mudavad'is game plan leaves rivals guessing
With just three years remaining to the next election, ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi is keenly assembling political machinery in readiness for that decisive election. However, his political game plan remains a top guarded secret.
Since the handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga in 2018, Mudavadi has become the face of the OPPsition NASA coalition.
Somehow, the move has revived the former Vice President's political career young to the next election. And to many of his followers, he is the country's safe pair of hands in the Uhuru Kenyatta succession race.
Mudavadi is slowly emerging as a key political figure in the post-Uhuru Kenyatta era in Kenya. So, is the former Sabatia MP finally ready to take on the country's political big boys during the 2022 election?
Has he shed the 'soft man' tag that has for many years been his biggest undoing on the political scene? Well, Mudavadi's newfound political footing will be tested in Kibra constituency during the upcoming by-election, with his party candidate Eliud Owalo tipped to carry the day.
A win for the former Finance Minister's candidate emboldens him heading into the next poll. It is, however, Mudavadi's real position on the Raila-Uhuru deal that has probably left his rivals in the political darkness. Is he supporting the deal or not?
With his party Secretary-General Barack Muluka recently hinting during TV interview that Mudavadi and Deputy president Wiliam Ruto may team to shoot down the Building Bridges Initiative, understanding Mudavadi is probably one of the hardest tasks.