Mudavadi ticket could send Uhuru’s Jubilee packing

There was a time when Amani’s Musalia Mudavadi was ODM Raila Odinga’s automatic road kill. The son of Mudavadi — the Luhya bull — was regular slaughter in Agwambo’s butchery. No more — the man with the most gentlemanly mien in Kenyan politics could be the chosen one in 2017. That’s not to say the son of Jaramogi can’t — or won’t — be the one to send Jomo’s son packing. Mr Odinga still remains the most formidable opposition colossus. But Kamwana and Jubilee may have his number. One gets the sense that Jubilee is salivating to have Mr Kenyatta go mano-a-mano with Mr Odinga. My gut tells me they know something we don’t. That’s why Mr Mudavadi may be the one.

Any student of Kenyan history — even ‘C’ students — know that Mr Odinga was robbed in 2007. There is a dispute as to whether he was again taken to the cleaners in 2013. But that’s only because both the election, the IEBC, and the Supreme Court’s petition were so shambolic that we can’t tell who won that election. My view is that no one did. That’s why a re-do was the only apropos thing to do. But alas, the Supreme Court shut the door on that possibility. The country — minus this scribe — accepted and moved on. My point is that the other side of the political divide knows how to deal with Mr Odinga — just the way they dealt with Jaramogi.