A political alliance bringing together opposition chief Raila Odinga and Baringo Senator Gideon Moi could be in the offing.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga met Gideon Moi in a closed-door meeting on Tuesday.
The private meeting which took place at a Nairobi hotel was kept out of the press with few details being disclosed by allies close to the two.
Though details of the meeting remained scanty , the two leaders discussed among other issues, the ongoing war against corruption and State of the handshake between the ODM leader and President Uhuru Kenyatta.
The meeting brought speculations of a clearest indication of force working together when they met at a Nairobi restaurant.
Sources privy to the meeting told the Nation that the two leaders want to work together, and that they discussed the possibility of achieving that through combined efforts to clinch the Wajir West parliamentary seat.
Even though ODM director of elections Junet Mohammed, who attended the meeting, did not confirm the possibility of the two leaders working together in 2022, other leaders interviewed said that was inevitable.
Mr Odinga and Mr Moi met at The Lord Erroll restaurant in Runda for more than three hours, a meeting Mr Mohammed confirmed discussed the political situation in the country.
“It is true the two leaders met and basically what was discussed was how to bring Kenyans together,” the MP said.
Odinga and Moi explored the possibility of fielding one candidate in the upcoming Wajir West Parliamentary seat by-election.
ODM’s flag-bearer in the contest is Prof. Mohamed Yussuf Elmi, while KANU has settled on Abdirahman Mohamed against Jubilee’s Mohamed Kolosh whose election was nullified by the Supreme Court.
Mr. Kolosh decamped to Jubilee after his victory was challenged by Ibrahim Sheikh of KANU.
Odinga and Moi have presidential ambitions and are outright opponents of Deputy President William Ruto’s State House bid.
Kanu Secretary-General Nick Salat said the opposition leader’s and the Baringo senator’s meeting yesterday was aimed at strengthening the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) following Mr Odinga’s peace deal with President Kenyatta on March 9, last year.
“The meeting was about the Building Bridges Initiative. Some of us pushing for a referendum don’t want to prolong it so we want to developed consensus so that we don’t subject Kenyans to an acrimonious campaign,” Mr Salat said.
He added that the country was not ready for a repeat of rigorous campaigns witnessed during the 2005 and 2010 referendum.
“We want an agreement across the board,” Mr Salat said.