NASA co-principal Musalia Mudavadi at a past event. [PHOTO/the-star.co.ke]
NASA co-principal Musalia Mudavadi has sold out and is now enjoying the loot, alone.
When he broke away from the first ODM to go form his UDF, it was seen as a way to re-invent himself from the Odinga narrative that was assumed to overshadow any other opposition politician eyeing the presidency.
In his re-invention, he picked a few soldiers who were committed to his course - to assemble a good team that would do the grassroots work of marketing Mudavadi to the common folks.
That is how a second reinvention through Amani National Congress would become inevitable at some point.
Fast forward, the unity that the new party ANC commanded has since been lost and everyone is speaking in a different tune.
In the NASA coalition, there have been complains of ODM dominating over the other parties.
ANC, Ford Kenya and Wiper legislators have come out to condemn the big brother role that ODM seems to be playing and in turn taking all the big parliamentary slots reserved for the opposition.
Other legislators including Lugari MP Ayub Savula have been vocal in their open disobedience of NASA leader Raila Odinga over such stances as the swearing-in.
But funny enough, Mudavadi has never come out to stand with his MPs against the dominance of Raila and his party.
He instead keeps singing Raila's name and reassuring opposition followers that he is in NASA to stay.
Who does that? When the issue is equality and reason in NASA, which party leader buries his head in the sand only to come out and proclaim their support for Raila.
As ANC followers keep asking where their leader is and when he will speak out, they do not know that in politics people sell out.
Knowing that he will never win against Ruto in 2022, Mudavadi seems to have done the only appropriate thing for himself: mortgage ANC to his 'president' Raila, get a good bargain, and go back home quiet.