People from Western region may not be ready to forgive Mudavadi

Musalia Mudavadi’s sentiments that he is seeking forgiveness from Luhya community for past political mistakes is a rather a joke to Luhya nation.

In 2013 elections he vied for the presidency seat amid calls from Luhya people to throw the idea into the trash and instead support the opposition leader Raila Odinga. He was severely punished after his own people voted fully for Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) leaving Mudavadi with peanut votes. He seems not to have learned a lesson from that and he is again seeking to take another plunge.

The only way Luhya people will forgive Musalia Mudavadi is by him going back to CORD the coalition he ditched few months before 2013 general elections. Will he be able to embrace that? His continued calls that it is time for Luhya people to have their own candidate are a fallacy. Given that  there is always a Luo candidate in any general election, Luhya people will support the candidate even if their own will be on the ballot paper. It is not lost to me that in 2013 Mudavadi vied and saw what happened. If you forget history you are bound of doing the same mistakes again. So where will he get votes in 2017 elections given that Raila Odinga will be searching for presidency.

Furthermore, the calls by some leaders in the community to stage candidates in coming elections for instance, Senator Moses Wetangula, Cyrus Jirongo, Eugene Wamalwa among others that they are eligible to vie is not timely.

The political wave has changed and now is based on coalitions. These coalitions do not stem from one ethnic tribe but from various tribes. Which other community will he merge with to have massive support? In 2013 elections he chose a running mate from Central Kenya, Jeremiah Kioni. This was his political shock of the decade as he never got a single vote from Central Kenya. I am so doubtful even if Jeremiah Kioni himself voted for Mudavadi.

These are some of the mistakes that have made Musalia Mudavadi become irrelevant in Luhya politics. Nobody knows why he vied in the first place. Was he a project to divide opposition votes? And now he has indicated that he is vying. Who knows his intentions?

While initially he had blatantly refuted claims that he supported President Uhuru, but at long last he has indeed confessed. Now the Luhya people have another chance on whether to forgive him or forget him politically. But the recent posts and comments on social media can speak a lot. Many social media users are so irritated and pissed of by Mudavadi’s quest to have Luhya support. His diehards are also proving his critics wrong by defending his position.