Siaya Senator James Orengo has rubbished details of Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi's new memoir titled 'Soaring Above The Heights of Passion'.
The Senate Minority Leader says that Mudavadi is being economical with the truth in the biography, terming the book revisionism and litany of misinterpretations.
For instance, he has taken issue with Mudavadi's claims that ODM leader Raila Odinga, the main subject, reconciled and agreed to work with President Uhuru Kenyatta over financial woes.
Orengo, a confidant of Raila said Raila and his allies were never at any point financially incapacitated as is being alleged.
"While we can always do with more money we never ran out of cash. But if money was the motivation in our struggle over the years, we would have quit ages ago,” he maintained.
He also rubbished Mudavadi's claims that Raila brought controversial lawyer Miguna Miguna into the National Super Alliance (NASA) as an outsider.
Orengo said that Miguna came in as part of a broad movement formed to push the war against Jubilee's leadership forward by building momentum towards the course.
He added that the alliance, on whose ticket Raila had unsuccessfully run for the presidency in the August 2017 polls, was working with every interested party.
“That’s why you saw civil-society types like (the economist David) Ndii playing a key role," the Senate Minority Leader further stated.
In the book, Mudavadi also speaks on Raila's January 30, 2018, mock presidential oath, which he says was marred with trickery from Raila.
He says that Raila proceeded to take the oath at Uhuru Park after promising both his NASA co-principals and Tanzania President John Magufuli that he had shelved the plan.