Choice of NASA flag bearer calls for sacrifice by principals

An opinion piece in The Standard on Sunday on March 17, by Enock Wambua cannot go unchallenged. He argued that should NASA pick Raila Odinga as their flagbearer that would hand a win to Uhuru Kenyatta on a silver platter. According to Mr Wambua, Raila elicits repellent passion from majority of Kenyan electorate. He did not cite recent African examples where incumbents have been hounded out of power by Opposition aspirants who had previously been let down several times.

 I see Wambua‘s opinion as an attempt to deflect attention from the more explosive split in the Wiper house, where non-Wiper aspirants such as Charity Ngilu, Wavinya Ndeti, Kivutha Kibwana and Mutua Katuku are pitted against core Wiper lieutenants led by Senators Johnson Muthama, David Musila and Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. The former group wants an automatic Wiper ticket handed to them while the latter wants them to go through nominations.