Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka hands a document to Makueni Governor Kivutha Kibwana after he joined the party. Photo: Wiper Secretariat
Rumors of a possible fall out in the National Super Alliance (NASA) have clouded media headlines in recent days, especially after it was reported that Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka met President Uhuru Kenyatta at the Coast last week, where sources privy disclosed that he might have signed a pre-election pact with Jubilee.
Early this week on Tuesday, Kalonzo met with Ukambani leaders Charity Ngilu(Kitui), Kivutha Kibwana (Makueni) and Wavinya Ndeti (Machakos) at the Ole Sereni, Nairobi where they apparently agreed to push NASA to declare Kalonzo their presidential flag bearer or else the results may not be pleasant.
Francis Nyenze, who is parliament minority leader and also a Wiper MP was also very clear in his address on Wednesday in the build-up to President Uhuru Kenyatta's State of the Nation address, that ODM party leader Raila Odinga should adhere to the Memorandum of Understanding he signed with Kalonzo in 2013, that he will back him in 2017.
"The MoU did not state that he will support Kalonzo only if he wins, so we are just asking for due process to be followed," said Nyenze.
On Thursday, true to the statement by Wiper leaders, in a report sent to newsrooms, Kalonzo is set to submit his nomination papers as Wiper Democratic Movement presidential candidate at the party's headquarter at Tende Drive in Lavington.
In their agreement, individual parties in the NASA coalition are supposed to choose their preferred candidate, who will come into battle out with each other for the NASA ticket.