Amani National Congress(ANC) and National Super Alliance(NASA) Co-principal leader Musalia Mudavadi came out on Wednesday to defended his brainchild troubled patry National Super Alliance (Nasa), which has been claimed to have had troubles and disagreement or its future.
Mr Mudavadi, who introduced Nasa into the political fold, before it was accepted by opposition leader Raila Odinga, and later by Wiper’s Kalonzo Musyoka and Moses Wetang’ula of Ford-Kenya, said the coalition was not “dead” as claimed by Mr Wetang’ula.
Issuing a reconciliatory call, Mr Mudavadi warned that if Nasa were to collapse, Kenyans’ faith in democracy and the Opposition would be undermined.
While addressing the crowding at Malinya Stadium in Ikolomani, Mr. Mudavadi said, “If we continue quarrelling as the opposition, we will end up breaking the hearts of our supporters and weaken the opposition and undermine our democratic gains.”
He further added saying, “Nasa is my brainchild and I am determined to do everything possible to ensure it remains intact and is strengthened as we focus on preparations for the next elections in 2022.”
Mr Mudavadi admitted that all the parties that formed NASA were still intact and present within the coalition and none of them had formally written to the Registrar of Political Parties asking to be removed.
He claimed the country needed a very a strong opposition to check the excesses of the government in power despite the wrangles triggered by the handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga. The further insisted that Nasa was “alive and well.”
The ANC leader also admitted to looking for ways of resolving the misunderstanding in the coalition and was keen on rebuilding Nasa to form a formidable opposition
Mr Mudavadi further added saying, “In truth, writing formally to the registrar of political parties and notifying the members is the only legal way of killing or dissolving a coalition. Yet in Kenya’s decade-long history of coalitions, parties routinely change form, dissolve, oppose or join others long before they actually do.”
His co principal Senator Moses Wetang’ula while speaking earlier in the week on Monday termed the coalition as a “history which cannot be repeated,” a statement that seemed to have angered NASA leader Raila Odinga who also happens to be the leader of ODM party.
Recently, Nasa politicians have dared each other in public, with Mr Mudavadi’s ANC party threatening to stop funding the coalition.
ANC Parliamentary group chairman Ayub Savula also said the party will today have a meeting to ratify a decision to withhold contribution of funds to Nasa and instead channel them to the ANC secretariat.
While speaking through a phone interview, Savula said, “Nasa is a vehicle that has stalled, but it still has the logbook. So we will retain the logbook by having it remain only a coalition in documents, but we will not fuel it. We will re-route the funds we give them to rebrand our own parties. ”
This is not the first time NASA coalition has had troubles and rumours of separation.During the swearing in of Mr Odinga as the people’s president some coalition members most of them from Wiper Democratic party lead by Kalonzo Musyoka missed the ‘ceremony’ a move that saw people speculate the separation.