In the run upto the 2017 general election, then Kilifi Women Representative Aisha Jumwa was at the peak of her political popularity. Her influence within Raila Odinga's ODM party was soaring.
Besides Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho and his Kilifi counterpart Amason Kingi, the fiery MP was probably the third most powerful Coast politician.
But times change. Today, she is a marked woman within her own party where her combative style to politics won the heart of her party boss, Raila Odinga who likened her to the legendary Mijikenda freedom fighter Mekatilili Wa Menza.
Jumwa who honed her political skills under Raila, went on to become an integral member of the party. And during the fiercely contested Malindi by-election in 2016, the vocal MP proved her political mettle where she aggressively campaigned for the ODM party candidate Wily Mtengo who won the bitterly contested poll.
Riding on her newfound fame, the history-making MP went on to defeat her political protégé, Mtengo, to win the Malindi MP seat in 2017. By so doing, she became the first woman ever to win that seat.
Within NASA, she was so powerful to be ignored. She therefore fought her way to the powerful Parliamentary Service Commission at the expense of Gladys Wanga, another powerful figure within ODM.
But in March this year, the tide started changing. She started rubbing ODM the wrong way when she openly declared her intention to support Deputy President William Ruto in his bid for State House.
Facing the risk of being kicked out from her position as PSC Commissioner, the unmoved lawmaker has dared her party to make good its threats.
Is Aisha Jumwa strong enough to win to survive politically without ODM. Is she going to suffer the same fate as those who came before her and rebelled against Raila?