Kalonzo makes final move that could break NASA

janet ndila

March 16, 2017 1:36 PM

Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has made a Final move indicating that he is set to leave the National Super Alliance (NASA) if...

Opposition leaders Kalonzo Musyoka, Moses Wetangula, Musalia Mudavadi and Raila odinga

Former vice President Kalonzo Musyoka will submit his presidential nomination papers to the Wiper Party today.

Musyoka made the announcement on Thursday making his intentions firm of running for the presidency during the August 8 election.

It’s not clear what the latest move by Musyoka means but its now clear that he could be set to leave the National Super Alliance (NASA) if not made the flagbearer.

On Monday, the Wiper party announced that the former Vice President would leave NASA if he was not made the presidential candidate.

Kitui West MP Francis Nyenze, who sits on NASA’s National coordinating committee, stated that if Kalonzo is not made the flagbearer, “NASA is dead”.

“So unless the presidential candidate, the flagbearer, is Kalonzo, I don't see us moving anywhere,” Nyenze told a local daily.

The legislator said that ODM leader Raila Odinga must adhere to the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) they signed with Kalonzo in 2013.

According to the MOU signed, Odinga was to be a one term President, while in 2017 the former Prime Minister would support Kalonzo.

The Kitui West MP surprisingly alleged that CORD’s transformation into NASA was a plot to kill the MoU and deny the Wiper party leaders his rightful run to the State House.

“Yeah, and a member of ODM in the Coordinating Committee said that was buried with the death of Cord. So now, what Wiper has seen is that the change of name to NASA was for us to not to lay any claim and kill that MoU, which people learnt about and there is no way they are going to accept,” Nyenze said.

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