Wetangula's threat to leave NASA could scuttle plans for ANC and Ford K :: Kenya mergers

Moses Wetang & # 39; ula has thrown a stone at the politics of western Kenya after announcing that his party, Ford Kenya, is ready to leave the National Super Alliance for treason and broken promises.

His threat sabotages yet another attempt to unify his party with the Amani National Congress, following the reluctance of the ANC and its leader Musalia Mudavadi to follow Senator Bungoma's footsteps.

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Over the last few months, Mudavadi and Wetang & ula have crisscrossed the western region selling the agenda of the Luhya unit, pretending to crush their parties to form a mega-organization.

The two are now talking against the tide, Mudavadi warming to the ODM wing. He said NASA is here to stay and his party will not go away. Wetang & ula, on the other hand, walked his party to a lonely horse and promised to strengthen it.

A team, led by ANC Secretary-General Barrack Muluka and former Senator Kakamega Boni Khalwale, who is the deputy leader of the Ford Kenya party, was formed to lead the merger agreements there. a few months ago.

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But the brutal reversal of Wetang & ula came as a surprise even as Mudavadi reaches out to rethink the position.

ANC-appointed deputy Godfrey Osotsi says that attempts to merge the two parties would not add value to the region's politics.

"What they do is a futile exercise," Osotsi said.

He stated that the real cause of the failure of the merger was the inability of the two leaders to hear about the direction of the new entity.

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At the funeral of the former head of the Kenya Sugar Council, Francis Chahonyo earlier this month, Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa and Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya asked Mudavadi and Wetang & Ula to give a political orientation to the inhabitants.

million. Oparanya said that the duo's project of merging their parties was not the best approach to search for Luhya's unity.

"If you fail to galvanize the region, I will offer myself to lead the people," Oparanya said.

million. Muluka, however, played down the intrigue by playing in a party formation for western Kenya.

"What is happening is that foreigners are more concerned about the merger of the two parties than we are.What good end are these people up to?" He asked.

"We have just taken the time to strengthen our parties, we are in the right direction."

Speaking Monday in Kilifi, Wetang & ula said that NASA was a dead gear, a statement that sparked reactions from ODM Secretary General, Edwin Wafula, who asked at Ford Kenya to be bold and give up his duties.
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Political experts say the bomb dropped by Wetang & ula could have been deliberate to scuttle another attempt by local leaders to forge a united political front.

Confusion and intrigue

"We see the same scenario replayed in Western politics, the usual confusion and intrigue that will divide people to make sure that the rich-voting region does not throw their ballots into one basket," he said. political commentator Martin Oloo.

Oloo says that Wetang & ula might have decided to work with Vice President William Ruto.

However, Wetang & ula rejected claims that he supports Ruto's quest to become the fifth president of Kenya. He said his name would be on ballot 2022.

But comments from Ford's party leader Ford have left his equipment exposed, along with other NASA MPs who are now plotting to recapture the key parliamentary positions currently held by Ford lawmakers in Kenya.