Opposition coalition National Super Alliance (NASA) is staring at an imminent split if threats by Musalia Mudavadi's Amani National Congress (ANC) is anything to go by. Lugari MP Ayub Savula said on Wednesday, November 29 that the party would hold a retreat in Naivasha at the weekend to chart the way forward.
Savula said the party was keen on preparing Mudavadi for the
2022 presidential race and would not stay in a coalition that does not work.
Savula was speaking shortly after coast legislators
dismissed a list of appointments made by the opposition to fill position in
parliament as reported earlier by The Evening Post. The coast leaders alleged
discrimination in the opposition outfit as they complained they had been
excluded in the appointments.
In the appointments made to key parliamentary committees,
most of Raila Odinga's loyalists seemed to have been gifted and leaders from
other parties in the coalition given a blackout. Ford Kenya and
NASA-co-principal Moses Wetang'ula was retained as senate minority leader and
will be deputised by Siaya senator James Orengo.
ODM chairman John Mbadi was appointed the minority leader
while Suba East MP Junet Mohamed landed the minority whip in the National
Assembly. Mudavadi is the brains behind NASA and should his ANC party break
links with the coalition, the opposition will remain without substantive
support in the former western province where Mudavadi enjoys massive support.
The wrangles in NASA come at a time when the opposition
needs to hold together for it to achieve its mission of frustrating the Jubilee
administration. NASA vowed to give President Uhuru Kenyatta who was sworn into
office on Tuesday, November 28 for a second term a hard time.
Raila announced that the opposition would swear him in on
December 12 as president.
