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Kalonzo Musyoka inches closer to becoming presidential candidate

by Amos Khaemba

The Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka is inching closer to being named the One Kenya Alliance (OKA) presidential candidate in the coming August 9 presidential elections.

Sources have intimated to Kivumbi.co.ke that the Wiper leader is likely to be picked as OKA flagbearer, with the alliance having resolved to field a presidential candidate in the upcoming General Election.

According to the draft agreement that is yet to be signed, the coalition, which brings together Martha Karua’s Narck Kenya party, Gideon Moi’s KANU, Kalozno Musyoka’s Wiper party and former Lugari MP Cyrus Jironbo’s United Democratic Party, will also field a single candidate for each parliamentary, Gubernatorial, and county assembly seat across the country in the forthcoming polls.

The draft agreement further states that, should OKA presidential candidate win the August 9 elections, its members shall form a coalition government.

The agreement additionally states that the power-sharing deal will be based on four key pillars including founder member status, portfolio balance, equity, and election performance. 

According to the draft agreement, the yet-to-formed coalition will stand dissolved, if the parties do not sign it by March 20.

“In the event that the coalition parties do not agree and or execute the power-sharing agreement before the end of March 2022, then this coalition Agreement shall stand terminated and dissolved,” read part of the draft coalition agreement. 

The details of the agreement have emerged days after the OKA principals postponed the signing of the coalition agreement in what they said was to allow for the polishing of certain legal issues that had arisen.

“We are happy to report that the best legal minds are now working on it (coalition agreement) and have assured us that by this week they will be over and we will be good to go early next week,” OKA principals said on March 2.

As OKA agrees to name a presidential candidate, its prospect of joining the yet-to-be formed Azimio la Umoja coalition remains in limbo.

Even as the Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka insists on the ODM leader to support his candidature, the modalities of OKA and Azimio working together remains a dream because the current political parties act does not recognize coalition to coalition arrangement.

In fact, the former prime minister team is insisting on negotiating with individual OKA affiliate parties and not with OKA as an entity.

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