Hours before a certain candidate aspiring to be a governor in Rift Valley announced his withdrawal from the race, he was summoned for a secret meeting.
There he met with his party honchos who confronted him with the evidence of how he had planned to whip up ethnic emotions to have his enemy voted out.
And then the killer punch was delivered he had to give up his ambitions and publicly announce his withdrawal or face consequences. The candidate who was accompanied by two MPs and a senator wept openly when he was told to resign.
Later he was whisked into another big office at the dead of the night where he was promised an unspecified job.
Grapevine has it that he is still trying to explain exactly what he is going to do in the new political dispensation.