Veteran politician Koigi Wa Wamwere has over the past few months branded himself one of the fiercest critics of President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM boss Raila Odinga.
He has been questioning Uhuru's leadership, his union with Raila and the Jubilee leadership. He has even called for a probe into the Kenyatta and Oginga family wealth.
Though he has every right to do so and could be genuine in his push for better leadership, Wamwere's attacks on the two is a contradiction to his earlier actions and remarks.
Here is why his criticisms and attacks on the two don't add up and show that the leader might be having some undisclosed fight with the two.
1. He embraced Uhuru before 2017 elections
It's funny how the former Subukia parliamentarian is finally opposed to Uhuru's leadership, yet he deliberately embraced him before the 2017 polls.
He even merged his Chama Cha Mwananchi Party into the bigger Jubilee Party in the run-up to the poll, which proves that he believed in Uhuru's leadership then.
Even then, Uhuru was still facing the challenges he is having now, as he was in the fifth year of his first term. He cannot, therefore, say that Uhuru was an angel then.
The former political detainee should consider telling Kenyans what suddenly happened between the two of them that has suddenly made him so vocal against the president.
About the Kenyatta wealth question, he has been in contact with the real Kenyatta, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, before his death.
Kenyatta even jailed him, why did he not take the founding father head-on during that time and chose to defer the question his son?
2. He even sought the Jubilee Party ticket in 2017
Wamwere has been trying to portray himself as an independent thinker who doesn't follow any political wave, judging by his facebook posts and interviews on Radio Sauti Ya Mwananchi.
But this doesn't add up with the fact that he dissolved his party into a bigger one, and even ran for the Jubilee Party ticket for the Nakuru senatorial race in 2017, the party whose leader, Uhuru Kenyatta, he is now attacking.
Why then did he participate in the Jubilee primaries if he dislikes Uhuru's leadership mode, given that he cannot argue that Uhuru was a new figure in the political scene then.
Asked, I would say the veteran leader is only bitter for failing to clinch the ticket, which was won by Susan Kihika. Koigi has repeatedly claimed that he was rigged out, in a race where he garnered less than 20 votes.
3. He immediately joined Raila after the poll
Immediately after the poll, Wamwere immediately joined Raila, alongside former Energy Minister and ex-Imenti Central MP Kirugi M'Mukindia.
They were welcomed by none other than the former Prime Minister, who was then eyeing the presidency in the NASA alliance ticket. So when did he realize that Raila is equally a poor leader who needs to retire?
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