Nominated MP Maina Kamanda may have been after all sent by President Uhuru Kenyatta to Raila Odinga's Capitol Hill offices on Thursday, a number of aides have confirmed.
In yet another unprecedented move, Mr Kamanda walked to Odinga's offices and declared support for Imran Okoth, despite Uhuru endorsing retired footballer McDonald Mariga for Kibra by-election the previous day.
At the Capitol Hill offices, Kamanda maintained that Mr Okoth, a brother to the late Ken Okoth, was the 'Jubilee candidate' for the polls, a move seen as defiance to the president.
Uhuru had paraded Mariga on Wednesday, a move that caught many Kenyans by surprise. It had been viewed that only DP William Ruto was pushing for Mariga's candidature.
“I call him ‘handshake candidate’ and there are so many other members of parliament who want to come and support him, just for one reason: That we have enjoyed peace in our country and we do not want that peace to be thrown out by a few people who do not want to see that we have achieved so much,” Mr Kamanda told journalists.
But in a tweet, Mr Odinga's spokesman Dennis Onyango suggestively said the meeting had a blessing from President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Further, Onyango said, the Handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga could turn into a political coalition in future.
"What’s happening is that Handshake has a candidate in Kibra. It will have in future elections too," he said.
Mr Philip Nyamai, another aide in Mr Odinga's Capitol Hill offices, was clearer, claiming that Mr Kamanda was deployed by President Uhuru Kenyatta to assure OF MY team of his support.
"He was not here by chance nor was it on his own volition but as a representative of President Kenyatta. No wonder he referred to Mr Imran Okoth as handshake candidate," he said.
Battle lines have been drawn in Kibra, in a duel that could yet again see Mr Odinga and DP William Ruto battle for supremacy. Kibra has traditionally backed Mr Odinga.