Amani National Congress (ANC) party leader Musalia Mudavadi now wants the National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition to forget about having an election in 2018 or anytime before the 2022 general election.
The coalition, led by its leader Raila Odinga has called for a fresh democratic presidential election following the controversial October 26, 2017 fresh presidential election which Raila declined to participate citing pre-rigging claims.
He called for dialogue between the opposition and the ruling Jubilee government, saying talks on a fresh election before 2022 should be considered.
However, Mudavadi who is Odinga's NASA co-principal, told a local television that Kenya currently does not have legal and financial muscle to conduct a fresh election possibly in August this year.
He noted that he had talked to MPs ahead of budget proposals in parliament who confirmed that the House did not allocate money for another election or debate the matter.
“I was asking our MPs, have you made provision for a fresh presidential election? They said no. Issues like this, in my view, need to be financed 90 per cent by the citizens themselves, and that can only be through the budget. My appeal is singular and clear... let us look forward. Let us start figuring out whether our strategy was wrong or right. And if it was wrong, let us correct it," said the former deputy prime minister on Wednesday.
On matters of People's Assembly, Mudavadi said the swearing-in of Odinga on January 30, was not the end of People's Assembly.
"NASA are pushing for an expanded executive, judiciary and police reforms, and strengthening of devolution as key issues that they want the People's Assembly convention to address," he added.
Before the controversial NASA inauguration, Odinga and his Deputy Kalonzo Musyoka maintained that there will be no 2022 election without electoral justice.