Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka now says that Azimio leader
Raila Odinga may have been pushed by senior leaders from within the ODM party
to agree to the broad-based deal with President William Ruto.
Speaking on Tuesday night, Kalonzo said some of the four
were determined to join Ruto’s Cabinet.
He said that after the Gen Z protests, Raila reached out to
him for input on what he should do and shared with him his position on the matter.
“The Azimio leader is Raila Odinga, the coalition chair is
Uhuru Kenyatta but we haven’t sat for a very long time but when this whole
thing was happening, Raila reached out to me for an opinion because after the
Gen Z revolution, Cabinet was dissolved, after that William Ruto had to reconstitute
his Cabinet.
“There were some, the initial four senior leaders of ODM who
joined Kenya Kwanza as ministers, who were determined to join the Cabinet and I get
the feeling they must have pushed Raila strongly,” Kalonzo stated on Citizen TV.
He insisted that what Raila wanted initially was a national
convention that would culminate in the formation of a transition government
that would have leaders from both sides of the political divide.
Kalonzo said this was informed by the bad state the country
was in, but instead, what followed was Raila’s people joining the Kenya Kwanza
administration.
The former Vice President noted that this development is
what has placed the former Prime Minister in the situation he is in currently.
“Raila's view would have been, and he shared this with me,
let's have a national convention because the country is in a poor state and end
up formulating a transitional government. That would be the time when Azimio
would have proposed so many people to join. But that instead happened. William
Ruto must be a happy man," he said
“That's why I say my friend Raila was snookered," he said.