Wiper party leader and Cord co-principal Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka is set to launch his biography Wednesday.
According to a snippet seen by Hivisasa the biography majors on his life from his young days where he was raised in a humble background to his success which saw him become the Vice president after the 2007 general elections. The biography also sites how Uhuru and Ruto betrayed Kalonzo on the run to the 2013 general elections.
Here are some of the excerpts from the biography;
“I clearly remember the night I felt betrayed by Uhuru and Ruto. This was the night our alliance died. We had agreed with Ruto that I would be on the presidential ticket, with Uhuru as my running mate or vice versa. Ruto was to be the Majority Leader,” he writes.
He continues: “Then on that night, Uhuru and Ruto arrived at my home in the company of Jimmy Wanjigi, a Nairobi businessman and political strategist. Mr Wanjigi is the son of former Kamukunji Member of Parliament and Moi era Cabinet minister, Maina Wanjigi. We walked down to the gazebo where dinner was to be served.”
It was at this point that he realised that things had changed.
'SAT SILENTLY'
"Ruto and Jimmy sat silently as Uhuru spoke: “Stephen,” he said, “We have decided that you should choose some other position, but not the presidency or deputy presidency.’’ I was stunned. I did not know at what point the arrangement we had earlier, of me being on the presidential ticket, had been changed.”
He writes that with the “wisdom of hindsight,” he now thinks the two made the decision after looking at the voter registration figures and discovering that between the Kikuyu and Kalenjin communities, to which they belonged, the two of them had what political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi later described as “the tyranny of numbers”.
“There was silence in the gazebo. As tension rose, Uhuru suddenly stood up, pushed his seat back and stepped out of the sliding glass door. He walked five steps to the waterfall, removed a packet from his jacket pocket and pulled out a cigarette. Holding it in his left hand, he lit it with a lighter in his right hand and furiously puffed on it. Uhuru finished smoking. He threw the smoldering stub on the ground, stumped on it with his left foot and ground it into the green grass.”
Uhuru then said, “My brother, in the spirit of transparency, I wish to inform you that tomorrow we are flying to Bujumbura to meet with President Pierre Nkurunziza and our sister Charity Ngilu will accompany us.” “If you do not take what you are being offered, Ngilu will take your place in our alliance.”
The name of the biography is against all odds.