Jubilee plot to weaken Raila causes split in TNA and URP

Determined to hold onto power, the governing Jubilee coalition has gone on the offensive in an attempt get a piece of the pie of Cord’s strongholds in Nyanza, Western and Coast.

However, the division of labour between The National Alliance (TNA) and United Republican Party (URP) is bearing a different kind of fruit, one that could form the basis for a split in the alliance that has been dismissed by the Opposition as a union of strange bedfellows. After President Uhuru Kenyatta’s  recent visits to South Nyanza and Deputy President William Ruto’s forays in Western Kenya, the Jubilee strategy of wresting some control from the Opposition strongholds has become clearer to its rivals. The strategy, according to Cord and Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leadership, is to “annihilate” Raila Odinga, but the plot does not seem to be bearing the right fruits and as quick as the strategists hoped.