Mudavadi hands Raila another rough tackle over 2022

With barely three years remaining to the next general elections, 2022 presidential candidates have started expressing their fear against ODM leader Raila Odinga.

Will he vie again in 2022? This is a headache to not only Deputy President Dr William Ruto, but also Amani National Congress (ANC) Party leader Musalia Mudavadi.

The DP started expressing his fears immediately Raila entered a political truce with President Uhuru Kenyatta through the famous March 9, 2018 handshake.

At first, Ruto started accusing Raila of joining the government to wreck Jubilee Party.

He argued that Raila had chased him out of ODM, and had again followed him to Jubilee to chase him out. But is this the case?

Well, Mudavadi also seem to fear Raila ahead of the 2022 succession race. He seems to be convinced that Raila will vie again.

He has now urged the ODM leader to live up to the NASA agreement that excludes his party from the 2022 presidential race.

Mudavadi said Raila should honour his word that ODM will not contest the presidency in 2022. If the NASA political deal is trashed, Musalia warned that Raila risks losing the trust of the people.

“We should learn to live up to the agreements that we make. That is a very essential element about growing democracy and having your word taken for what you stand for … One would expect that going forward, if there is a commitment that NASA should remain, then we should live by what we agreed,” he was quoted by a local daily.

“But if somebody somewhere wishes to renege on that, then it’s also their right. But going forward, you put yourself in a situation where people will never trust you.”

For the first time, Mudavadi strongly dismissed Raila’s referendum proposal of creating a three-tier government that will see the formation of 14 regional blocs.

He said the proposal was a tactic to create jobs for governors who are doing their second terms in office, some of whom, he said, have looted public coffers.

“Governors in some areas have looted. But then you now say, create another layer of super governors, at whose expense? Who pays for it? There are some suggestions that are weird,” Mudavadi said.

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