In 2002 Moi left KANU to Uhuru with over 50MPs, he bankrupted it in less than two years. Uhuru was the first Official Opposition Leader to cross over to government and support the incumbent President while still serving as the Official Opposition Leader.
Uhuru by 2006 had abandoned official opposition duties and was a Kibaki lackey. He became minister and deputy prime minister after Kibaki rigged himself back in 2007.
By the next election, he completely abandoned KANU and formed TNA, which he abandoned in the following election to form Jubilee, which is today a dead party.
Those in ODM who want lectures from Uhuru how to run political parties should drive on Thika Road and see the once mighty Jubilee Party Headquaters, which was recently put on auction.
Even if Hon. Junet Mohamed and his group were to let the Sifunas of this world auction ODM to Uhuru, it will not last two years before the ODM Party dies a natural death.
Uhuru should focus on revamping his dead Jubilee Party, where he still masquerades as the Party Leader. He should help Matiangi there.
Uhuru’s Kikuyu tribe never embraced ODM even as a partner party during the handshake. They took a flight to Ruto, having completely rejected the ODM-Jubilee MoU and the 10-point agenda, which was titled ‘Building Bridges [to a New Kenya] Initiative (BBI).
GEMA bastardized BBI and its reform package, including the introduction of 70 new constituencies, which largely benefited it. They dragged it to court and destroyed it completely.
Any political proposition that puts ODM Party in a working arrangement with Uhuru must account for the failure of Uhuru’s people to embrace ODM under the 2018 [handshake] MoU, and largely in much of ODM’s 20-year history since 2005.
That proposition must also account for Uhuru’s own failure to build an enduring national party, with a near 30-year history of wrecking parties and shuttling between political parties.
Granted, he became President in the process, but that was purely on account of the state-created TNA and state-bankrolled URP, with OT-Morpho, Smartmatic, Al Ghuriah, etc. in between.
The Luo Alliance, which buttresses ODM, cannot do politics with GEMA in its present posture. We are witnessing vintage Uhuru, trying to con ODM into irrelevance once again.
The ODM Party’s historical stance as a pro-minorities and pro-marginalized groups cannot sit in the same room where big, greedy tribes allocate shares to themselves.
Granted, the Luo is a big tribe, but the Luo Alliance is composed of the Luo and other very small tribes, which together form the ODM Party — from the Njemps, the Maasai, the Turkana, the Somali, and the Coastal sub-Mijikenda tribes.
The Kikuyu already struggles to even accommodate the Mbeere and the Tharaka; how will it accommodate the many minority ODM tribes, like the Abasuba, the Tiriki, and the Ogieks?
The only time ODM can do successful business with GEMA is if it abandons its tribal domination agenda based on an old oath, which attempts to permanently exclude other communities from the levers of the state.
An ODM-GEMA alliance in the obtaining environment is dead on arrival. ODM will find itself in the post-2002 situation; grumpy in power, having been badly played.
The good thing is that this will not happen because we’ve already rejected it.
So, Uhuru should concentrate on Jubilee. He can even take Sifuna to be the new Secretary General of Jubilee Party. The ODM Party is not his problem.
Kila mtu acheze kwao.
