In his memoirs 'Soaring Above The Heights of Passion', ANC party leader Musalia Mudavadi says that the ongoing happenings in the ruling Jubilee Party are a repeat of the happenings that killed the independence KANU party.
He says that just like now that President Uhuru Kenyatta seems very keen on working with his former critic and ODM leader Raila Odinga, despite complains from allies of his deputy William Ruto, the same was the case in 2001.
This was after the then-president Daniel Moi roped in Raila and his National Democratic Party (NDP), which was strongly opposed by the then Vice President George Saitoti and his allies led by powerful politician JJ Kamotho.
Mudavadi says that Saitoti's complains were ignored and later pushed out of KANU's centre of power, as new political kids took over, which appears to be the situation with Ruto and Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i now.
"Throughout 2001, they resisted efforts to merge the two parties, arguing that KANU's constitution did not have any provision for a merger with other political outfits," he reads part of the book as quoted by the Star.
The book was authored by ANC Secretary-General Barrack Muluka.
Mudavadi adds that Moi began trusting Raila more than his inner circle, after which Kamotho, Saitoti and himself were branded enemies and plans hatched to keep them away from the party.
The former Vice President says that despite being in Moi's inner circle, he began being economical with information with them, to an extent that they were only getting it from other sources.
"President Moi, as far as I could see, was negotiating the merger outside his usual political circles. We started [only] getting wind of it when the notion of cooperation began filtering into public ears," the book reads," he adds.
He says that just like now that some politicians close to the two are whispering about a possible Kikuyu-Luo alliance, there were anticipations about a Kalenjin-Luo alliance then.
However, Raila would later shoot out of KANU and into the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC), which defeated Uhuru Kenyatta who had Moi's blessings in the 2002 polls.