Opposition within Opposition's strategy to tame Uhuru, Raila

Azimio leader Raila Odinga and former President Uhuru Kenyatta address a crowd gathered at Uhuru Business park in Kisumu city. [Michael Mute,Standard]

The strategy by the Opposition within the Opposition in Jubilee Party was first to isolate, embarrass and dump former President Uhuru Kenyatta together with former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. But that approach must have hit a dead end. So the goal within the Opposition in Jubilee has been revised. Drag Uhuru to the Opposition within the Azimio coalition so that "he can bloat out our guilt". The argument is simple. "We shouldn't dump our own. Let us ensure he comes over so we do not look like we are fighting him. As for Raila, we have done our bit with him."

If this revised approach works, Uhuru will have basically rubbished his Handshake comrade as someone he only needed to complete his 10 years in office. The net gain, for the Jubilee defectors to Kenya Kwanza, will be to go back to where they were prior to last year's general election, namely in government albeit with a changed name, Kenya Kwanza. As a government with its well-marked stakeholders - by all means true - looking at the width and breadth of the appointments since the regime came to power, the Jubilee defectors will contend with "development for our people" leftovers they gather from the ruling system.