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Did Jubilee Governor hatch a plan to scuttle the homecoming of Raila?

Did some powerful figures at Statehouse hatch a plan to scuttle the homecoming of National Super Alliance (NASA) Chief Raila Odinga? Grapevine has been told that a prominent Jubilee Governor and MP, a day before the arrival of Raila on Friday kept pleading to meet some influential city opposition legislators until late into the night.

When one of the youthful NASA MPs insisted to know what the meeting was all about, the Jubilee leaders disclosed that they wanted him not to mobilize youth to go welcome Raila at the airport, promising to give him a cool Sh1 million. The first time legislator keen not to be branded a mole, hang up his phone.

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