Senate Minority leader James Orengo has defended controversial Canadian-based lawyer Miguna Miguna over the role he played after Supreme Court nullification of Uhuru Kenyatta's victory.
After years of fallout with Raila Odinga, Miguna Miguna made a dramatic reunion with the ODM leader, causing anxiety and suspicions among NASA members.
In his memoirs "Soaring Above the Storms of Passion", Mudavadi paints Miguna Miguna as a disruptive person, who derailed Nasa's agenda.
But in an interview with the Nation, Orengo insisted that NASA needed Miguna in the quest to push Jubilee to submission.
“That’s why you saw civil-society types like (the economist David) Ndii playing a key role.”
He explained that Mr Miguna’s NRM came in handy because it had “some tools that could not fit in Nasa proper which was a parliamentary coalition.”
Mr Mudavadi, then a key ally of Mr Odinga, says Mr Miguna’s entry into Nasa activities was mysterious and disruptive of the smooth running of the post-2017 general election affairs of the coalition.
“I must emphasise, NRM was not a creation of Nasa, nor was it a Nasa organ. It was just as mysterious to me as was the manner in which it was first introduced to Kenyans. So, too, was the sudden emergence of Miguna Miguna ‘the NRM General’,” Mr Mudavadi writes.
According to him, Miguna's entry gave birth to extremism ideas within NASA, including plans to swearing-in Raila Odinga.
“These included the proposition to swear in Raila as the People’s President. We did not know — certainly I didn’t know — who was going to swear him in, until when after a number of hiccups, the name of the self-proclaimed NRM General Miguna cropped up again.”