Has a senior Jubilee official been secretly meeting politicians allied to ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi (pictured)? Corridors is aware the influential Jubilee official has had about three meetings with some of Musalia's handlers at an exclusive venue within Nairobi's Runda estate. The agenda of the meetings have been kept secret but there are claims talk about the 2022 political alignments could have featured prominently. It is not clear, however, if the ANC boss has sanctioned the meetings at a time when he is insisting on running for president next year. In the fullness of time, the closely guarded secrets will spill into the public domain.
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With the presidential campaigns gathering steam, a party leader has found himself between a rock and a hard place. Despite having signalled he could throw his hat into the presidential ring, he is doing little to assemble his campaign machine. He is bargaining for a buyout. In one of the most embarrassing incidents last week, which was kept under wraps, he clashed with one of his allies at a hotel in Nairobi. The crux of the matter was that the confidant had come unannounced. He gatecrashed a meeting the party leader had with a close aide of the main political leader in the country. Fearing the information could leak, the party boss confronted his ally in a nasty exchange.
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Still on matters of party leaders, a relative of a senior political leader in the country who is also his aide is in the eye of a storm. There are countless complaints from politicians and strategists of the party leader over the unbecoming conduct of his relative. To make matters worse, the relative, who is also the party boss's daughter, has been messing up her father's public image. It is also alleged that the daughter has been blocking her father's political advisers from easily accessing their boss for political strategy meetings. With the daughter's unfettered control of the father's public engagements, there are concerns the unprofessional conduct could hurt his 2022 prospects.
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A senior MP who is seeking a gubernatorial seat in Nyamira county has panicked. Months after falling out with a group of county politicians over a longstanding standoff at the assembly, his fortunes are dwindling. One of his opponents has taken the ground by storm, complicating the MP's chances. The rival, who is said to have deep pockets and good grassroots connections, has now sent the lawmaker back to the drawing board. To make matters worse, the wave of one of the country's major political parties is set to blow away the MP's gubernatorial ambitions.
