THE JUBILEE PACT

 THE JUBILEE PACT

With the race to state house intensifying, several parties ran into forming coalitions that could see them win the presidential elections in the first round without probably going in for a run off. This led to formation of four alliances on the 17^th of January and one of these alliances was the Jubilee Alliance that comprised of three parties that signed the deal that is The National Alliance (TNA), United Republican Party (URP) and United Democratic Movement (UDM). The key principals from these parties, Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto and Musalia Mudavadi respectively, agreed to sign the pre-election pact amid various challenges in opinions that they were facing i.e. that of choosing a presidential candidates as each of them had been endorsed by their various parties as their flagbearer’s.

However even with the political drumbeats, they managed to get moving and the three agreed that Ruto would be the Deputy Flag bearer whereas the candidate had to be chosen amongst Uhuru and Mudavadi. However, this did not work out as seemingly, there was something in the offing and probably, Uhuru has used this tactic to lure Mudavadi to his side by promising to step down in his favour so that he could be the coalition flag bearers. 

This trick never worked out and Mudavadi made a grand walkout with his colleagues from the coalition to form an alliance with Gideon Moi of Kanu and his fellow tribesmen like Eugene Wamalwa.  Deputy Prime Minister and UDF presidential candidate Musalia Mudavadi accused his former allies In Jubilee Alliance, barely two days after parting ways with them of playing games with Kenyans, as he took his campaigns to his home turf of Kakamega County.

 The Jubilee duo however answered him and they said , “Musalia Mudavadi needs to accept the reality that he must work hard to convince the delegates to nominate him Instead of trying to arm-twist Uhuru Kenyatta to Step down for Him.” This however did not auger well with Mudavadi.

Days after, things have picked up and the coalition is sending some signals to their rival counterparts, CORD, that they are headed for the statehouse in the first ninety minutes. Currently Deputy Prime minister Uhuru Kenyatta has been unveiled as the presidential flag bearer, Eldoret North MP William Ruto as the running mate and NARC leader Charity Ngilu as the designate majority leader in the senate should the coalition win.

The coalition flag bearer noted that they had come together in order to reconcile Kenyans and preach peace to them and he acknowledged that the long awaited liberation had started and that it was time for the youths to take over the leadership of the land.

The DPM, counterparts also recognised the fact that winning the election was not going to be an easy task and thus they shall have to work extra hard and remain united to the end and that they were going to shun divisive politics, politics of tribalism and mismanagement of national resources.

 “The Jubilee boat has taken off and we are all captains in this journey.” Uhuru Kenyatta