Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi has rubbished claims that the opposition's National Super Alliance (NASA) is dead and no longer able to serve its purpose.
Speaking on Saturday, the former Vice President said that the alliance, on whose ticket ODM leader Raila Odinga sought the presidency in 2017, can actually be salvaged and revived.
He said that this can be done beginning 2020, a year he termed as of reconciliation, hoping that the issues affecting the alliance can be ironed out and a consensus reached.
"Hopefully 2020 is going to be a year of looking at reconciliation and broader consensus building, hopefully, some of the issues affecting NASA can be dealt with in the coming year," Mudavadi said as quoted by Standard.
Ironically, his remarks came only a day after Raila, whose party was the dominant member of the alliance, declared that the alliance died immediately after the 2017 elections.
Raila, in an interview with Citizen TV, said that alliances are formed to win elections and die afterwards should they not manage to carry the day as intended.
Lately, there has been some infighting within the alliance's member parties, with ANC, Kalonzo Musyoka's Wiper and Moses Wetangula's Ford Kenya teaming up against ODM.
For instance, the three have accused ODM of refusing to share the political parties fund with it, also accusing ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna of disrespecting their party leaders.
Trouble began when the three snubbed Raila's mock presidential swearing-in at Uhuru Park on January 30, 2018, which saw them branded cowards by Raila's troops.
Since then, the cracks have been seen widening by the day, to an extent that ODM has since threatened to officially walk out of the alliance.