I have wanted to resist commenting on politics but I can't help interpreting Uhuru. Listen to him on Kass FM "Je, sisi watu wa Kanu tulipata 40% in ODM-K?" People roared back "Nooooooo". In other words, he was saying, "you sent us to represent all of you in ODM-K but we FAILED to press for our share as Kanu". He was saying, "we failed to lead you in ODM-K, we're losers and please damp us from leading you". Of course the cheerleaders didn't understand the intricate message, what a pity! Uhuru's Central Province has rejected Kanu in toto and embraced the flower party (Narc-Kenya). If Uhuru wants Kanu to field candidates in Kenya, which part of Kenya is likely to/ not to have Kanu candidates? Does he intend to fool anybody that he will have anything that will help to bring in Kanu MPs from Central Province? No, he is playing a bad gamble and dirty ball with our people and he should be told so without mincing words. As an outsider and an isolated man in his own backyard, he has one sad but inevitable, albeit gentlemanly business to do: Uhuru SHOULD seriously consider quitting Kanu NOW before the political sun sets for him, join one of his own region's parties and leave Kanu to its 'owners', the people of Kenya that believe Kanu has only one future and that is THE future WITHIN ODM-K.
Just imagine, what if ODM-K also fields candidates for MP and councillors? Consider Hon. William Ruto for example (he who read the resolutions!) running as a Kanu candidate against one from the more organised and vibrant ODM-K in his Eldoret North constituency. What a God -(nay, Uhuru Kenyatta)-given opportunity to supplant those problem people for the Kibaki administration! Uhuru wants to lose his seat while clinging to Kanu as an excuse so that he can safe face, he has written his own political orbituary but we fail to see it! Uhuru is on a mission to divide ODM-K, period! That division will allow the other parties, including Narc-K, to slip past and return to government. Electing a president in ODM-K, with no party MPs is an exercise in futility and a sure recipe for chaos, as is currently the case in the government of national disunity. Kanu should remain a corporate member of ODM-K and forget fielding own candidates. Yes, it can have its own candidates to square it out with LDP at the nomination stage in order to get an ODM-K candidate. Once a candidate is picked, that should be the end of the story. Once an ODM-K candidate is in place, there should be neither Kanu nor LDP but ODM-K.
By an act of guile and wizzardry, is Uhuru serving the flower party by dividing the opposition in order to gift Kibaki a second chance and therefore get a reason for the people of Central to 'forgive', embrace and elect him in 2012 as 'mundo wa nyumba'? I'm convinced Uhuru's indecisive leadership of Kanu has lost direction and doomed the old-lady to political irrelevance. Fielding candidates as Kanu will make it easy for them to lose. Don't forget that Kanu was, for a good part of the last 40-plus years, the face of misrule, oppression and the aborted Kenyan dream. Nobody would hesitate to pin the econo-political misdeeds of the past on Kanu. In ODM-K, Kanu has a chance of burying its ugly past of persecutions, indeed it bequeaths that ugly past to the relics of the old school. In that camp is Biwot and Moi, who would easily be dismissed as having hang-overs of power. But Uhuru wants us to cross the floor and compete with Biwot and Moi for infamy.
I don't support any moves to take our people out of ODM-K. Uhuru is alone and lonely in ODM-K, and he can recede to his fold and live with birds of his feathers. Otherwise as they said in ancient Egypt, Ma yaasei kimageet baan bo beet buch!
By an act of guile and wizzardry, is Uhuru serving the flower party by dividing the opposition in order to gift Kibaki a second chance and therefore get a reason for the people of Central to 'forgive', embrace and elect him in 2012 as 'mundo wa nyumba'? I'm convinced Uhuru's indecisive leadership of Kanu has lost direction and doomed the old-lady to political irrelevance. Fielding candidates as Kanu will make it easy for them to lose. Don't forget that Kanu was, for a good part of the last 40-plus years, the face of misrule, oppression and the aborted Kenyan dream. Nobody would hesitate to pin the econo-political misdeeds of the past on Kanu. In ODM-K, Kanu has a chance of burying its ugly past of persecutions, indeed it bequeaths that ugly past to the relics of the old school. In that camp is Biwot and Moi, who would easily be dismissed as having hang-overs of power. But Uhuru wants us to cross the floor and compete with Biwot and Moi for infamy.
I don't support any moves to take our people out of ODM-K. Uhuru is alone and lonely in ODM-K, and he can recede to his fold and live with birds of his feathers. Otherwise as they said in ancient Egypt, Ma yaasei kimageet baan bo beet buch!
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