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Kenya: Kalonzo Stuck With Odinga Third Time in a Row

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Nairobi — Wiper Leader Kalonzo Musyoka is a troubled man, haunted by which political decision to take ahead of the 2022 polls as the clock is ticking.

His quest to go it alone in the August 9 elections remains dim as key leaders from his own political backyard have since rallied behind other presidential contenders, leaving him a lonely man.

Musyoka is left with only two options, to either join the Raila Odinga Azimio la Umoja Movement or go it alone at the ballot where his victory is high unlikely.

The Wiper Leader seems to be a cornered man with intense pressure to join Odinga being placed on him by several leaders in the region.

In 2021, Musyoka declared that he will not support Odinga for President in the forthcoming General Election.

In an interview he had stated that he would be “the most stupid person on earth” to endorse Odinga, who was his co-principal in the National Super Alliance (NASA), for the third consecutive time.

“For me, as of now, it is unthinkable that I, Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka, would support Raila Odinga for the third time. I would be the most stupid fellow on earth to go and support — for the third time — a presidential candidate without a measure of reciprocity,” said Kalonzo.

The man who he said he will be most stupid to join hands with, is the exact fellow he now has no option but to join hands with judging from the choices available.

Over the weekend the Wiper Leader held a meeting with Odinga in Mombasa with indications that a reunion will ultimately be possible.

By extension, the rest of the One Kenya Alliance (OKA) leaders – Gideon Moi (KANU), Martha Karua (NARC-Kenya) and Cyrus Jirongo (UDP)- will be co-opted into the agreement.

Details of the meeting remains scanty, but sources claim that Musyoka issued a list of irreducible minimums should he sacrifice his presidential ambitions to join Odinga.

With the sealing of the pact between Azimio and OKA almost finalised, the unveiling of the political marriage between the two is expected during the twin National Delegates Conference (NDC) on Feb 25 and 26 by ODM and Jubilee.

Last weekend, during a rally in Mombasa, Musyoka intimated that indeed political union talks were ongoing in the background.

“We’re ready to negotiate with like-minded outfits who are not corrupt. The corrupt are the ones behind the massive unemployment facing Kenya,” he said.