Amani National Congress Leader Musalia Mudavadi has attributed the loss of Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed's African Union bid to what he termed as Jubilee government's incompetence.
In a statement on Tuesday, Mudavadi observed that Kenya did not plan and scheme enough prior to AU polls, noting that Amina should have won.
"Regional and international diplomacy isn’t your usual cup of domestic posturing; it requires seasoned, erudite planning and engineering to which it is apparent, the Jubilee regime wasn’t prepared for,” he said.
"To have fielded an Anglophone candidate to succeed an immediate Anglophone without sufficiently lobbying the evident Francophone beneficiaries wasn’t a diplomatically astute thing to do. That disadvantage alone should have forewarned Kenya against fielding a candidate," he added.
Amina lost the vote for African Union Commission chairperson to Chad’s Moussa Faki Mahamat.
She has since conceded defeat, blaming the continent of voting along language lines.
Mahamat is set to replace Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma of South Africa whose term came to an end on June last year.