MAYBE HE WILL SNEAK THROUGH!

MAYBE HE WILL SNEAK THROUGH!

                        Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi, born on September 21, 1960, in Sabatia, Vihaiga District is a Kenyan politician, currently serving as Deputy Prime Minister and  the presidential hopeful of the United Democratic Forum Party (UDF) that is in the Amani coalition. He is married to Tessie Shangatti Mudavadi and has three children with her (two boys and a girl).

Previously, Mudavadi has served as the last and the shortest serving Vice President in 2002 under President Daniel Moi’s government after an unsuccessful attempt to bring the luhya tribe to the KANU camp which was the then ruling party. During the 2002 elections, Mudavadi race for the Vice President as Uhuru Kenyatta’s running mate on a KANU ticket which was the then political machine, flopped unfortunately, despite getting the support from the then outgoing president Daniel Moi.

However, the presidential hopeful of Amani Coalition has faced lots of hiccups since decamping ODM for UDF. He has been a victim of political con and been branded names like “shetani” by Uhuru Kenyatta and even branded and labelled names like “state house project" by Cyrus Jirongo.

In the process of cobbling up coalitions, mistakes were being committed and some may have dug holes that may have swallowed them. I may be wrong but I tend to believe that Mudavadi was one of the victims of this statement as he ran to the jubilee alliance but later was side-lined and chased away.

However, Mudavadi has taken a swipe at the Jubilee alliance principals saying that they had plotted to derail his candidature but has recently vowed to go it alone after leaving JUBILEE Alliance and has teamed up with fellow tribesmen like Wamalwa in a 50-50 power sharing deal to form the AMANI coalition and has thus been branded the name, “Luhyia Leader” and not a national leader.

It has been evident that the presidential race has been a race of two horses as the Cord presidential candidate and the Prime minister has always stated but even with him forming the Amani coalition, which has been believed to be the third force, the question is that will he sneak through and form the next government?  I doubt but maybe his third force is a donkey aimed at sneaking past the two horses.

                                                          (Deputy prime Minister, Musalia Mudavadi)

 

" i am certain that i am going to rattle my opponents. "

Musalia Mudavadi