Senator Khalwale and Omar Hassan holding their Part leader’s hostage.

The count down to the 2017 general election is fast gaining momentum and key political parties are realigning themselves. The leading presidential candidates in Uhuru Kenyatta, Raila Odinga and Musalia Mudavadi are up and down in their preparation for the same by trying to put their respective houses in order. So far, Uhuru has seen his new vehicle for 2017 in Jubilee registered while Mudavadi has concentrated in popularizing his ANC that was registered sometime back last year. It is the CORD leader who seems to remain at cross roads on whether to go it alone as ODM or pursue the Jubilee route by registering CORD as a party.

So far, it seems like the three main partners in CORD in the name of ODM, WIPER and FORD Kenya are in agreement that they should register CORD as a party that will have corporate membership in terms of parties. The original idea is to have the would-be presidential candidate vie on a CORD ticket but at the same time retaining the identity of the member parties unlike Jubilee that dissolved their individual parties. However, what seems to be the elephant in the house is whether the corporate members should too hold joint nominations for other positions other than the presidency.