NASA leaders Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi, Raila Odinga and Moses Wetangula Photo/www.the-star.co.ke
The suggestion of joint NASA nominations has threatened to kill Musalia Mudavadi’s super alliance. What makes matters worse is the fact that even the mother of NASA is among those opposed to joint preliminaries.
Wiper party, FORD Kenya and ANC fear the national dominance of ODM. They are also planning to negotiate with Jubilee in case the opposition loses and this is determined by number of elected leaders a party has.
The most vocal victims are Wiper lead by former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka and his lieutenants. They are ever complaining and saying such a suggestion is a plot to mess with internal democracy.
The dominantly Kamba party has maintained that each party has to remain autonomous despite being part and parcel of NASA. Its Secretary General and Mombasa County senator Omar Hassan has been leading his juniors in this push despite his inability to effectively market Wiper at the coast.
ANC has also sensed defeat in Western Kenya where it enjoys some reasonable following. Raila’s ODM has the ability to sweep everything something that will deny Mudavadi bargaining power after the August general election. Their FORD Kenya allies have also freaked out.
Opposing joint nominations is not aimed at building democracy but it is a means to achieving self interests if NASA does not triumph. They act and talk with partiality that make some to look like Jubilee agents.