Kalonzo must ensure a divided Wiper party doesn't fell NASA

Kalonzo Musyoka

The National Super Alliance (NASA) is “national” and “super” largely because Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka agreed to be its candidate for Deputy President under ODM’s Raila Odinga. Raila and Kalonzo are now fused at the hip like Siamese twins. The two are conjoined – and any attempt to separate them will kill both. They will either go State House together, or live in the political wilderness apart. As American thinker and statesman Benjamin Franklin famously opined, they “must indeed all hang together, or they will most assuredly, hang separately.” Theirs is a full marriage – consummated in public – without an exit, or divorce. That’s why they must make it work, or be harshly condemned by history.

Kalonzo made NASA work, and he’s a key pillar. But there isn’t a shortage of ways in which Kalonzo and his Wiper brigade – loyalists and renegades – can put NASA asunder. Jubilee, the side opposite, is salivating and licking its chops waiting for Wiper to unravel. I am not telling the man from Tseikuru anything he doesn’t know. Kalonzo knows every blade of grass in the vast Ukambani region – where his base is concentrated – and other Wiper pockets around the country. As the captain of the Wiper ship, Kalonzo must stamp his authority on the party while being democratic and open. That’s the only way he remains a commanding asset – and not a liability – to NASA.