Kalonzo, Mudavadi, Wetang’ula were refusing to pick Raila’s calls

Nasa Principals (left) Musalia Mudavadi, Kalonzo Musyoka and Moses Wetangula (right) at the Wiper offices. The three failed to show up at Uhuru Park for the swearing of Raila Odinga on 30/01/2018. [Photo/Dennis Kavisu].

Two private and long emotional meetings with pleadings, empty promises and a flurry of received and ignored calls captured the palpating tension 24 hours before swearing-in of NASA leader Raila Odinga, Saturday Standard can reveal.

Sharp and divergent opinions characterised the Opposition coalition’s moment of reckoning as Raila and the three other principals differed on the oath-taking, which they had touted as epic shift from their electoral theft grievance.