Prime Minister Raila Odinga WILL NOT contest the Homa Bay senator
seat, it turns out Raila was only being polite to the elders, local
elected leaders and local party officials. A European based public
affairs consultant who has consulted for Raila previously confirmed to
this writer that Raila will instead use the opportunity offered to give
the residents of Homa Bay county direction who among the top contenders
should be elected.
The top contenders for the seat are top Raila aide Silas Jakakimba, Hillary Alila, Fred Rabongo and Engineer Okundi.
”Basically what the people of Homa Bay are saying is that they want
Raila to indicate who is best suited to serve the Orange party and
candidate Raila best, they simply want to give him the person he trusts
just like he trusted hon Kajwang’. This is take a sweep at the monied
Jubilee allied politicians (Kalausi) who have been trying to make in
roads in South Nyanza” noted the consultant.
It is argued that in developed democracies sitting heads of
government have gone back to perform legislative functions in
parliament, an example is given of United Kingdom (Gordon Brown),
Australia (Julia Gillard, Kevin Ruud), Israel (Arial Sharon, Ehud Barak,
Benjamin Netanyahu), in USA (John McCain) Netherlands (Wim Kok, Luud
Rubbers) Germany (Hemut Kohl, Gerhard Scholder) among others
Others have argued that those MPs pushing for Raila are just using
him for their own ends, because they would want to run for Senator in
2017 and fear the incoming may overshadow their rise in the party.
They only want Raila as the Senator because as the next president, he
is unlikely to defend the Homa Bay seat. That way no-one of their
playmates or match emerges in my motherland county at this time.
That way they can all start at the same spot together (pari passu).
That’s why Kaluma, Mbadi et al want to put HB in a “refrigerator”, to
prevent a young energetic leader like Silas Chepkeres Jakakimba or Moses
Kajwang from emerging.
They may be driven by jealousy, rather than love for their Baba.
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