I was short-changed, insists Mudavadi

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Mudavadi asserts that arguments by Anyang' Nyong'o do not hold water/FILE

NAIROBI, Kenya Apr 14 – Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi on Friday maintained there is a plot to lock him out from seeking the presidency in the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) by giving party leader Raila Odinga an automatic ticket for the top seat.

In a statement through his private secretary Kibisu Kabatesi, Mudavadi poked holes into arguments advanced by Secretary General Anyang’ Nyong’o that the party only filed its registration documents without amending a controversial clause that gives Odinga an automatic ticket, in a bid to beat the April 30 deadline.

He explained that at the moment, the ODM is provisionally registered. On Tuesday, the party applied for full registration. Once fully registered, the party will be governed by all provisions of the Act, including Section 20 which governs amendments of the party Constitutions.

“The public has consistently been misled that what the party did on Tuesday was merely to ‘file returns’. To the contrary, on Tuesday, full registration was hurriedly applied for under the un-amended Constitution, in contempt of the NEC Resolution,” he said.

He added; “The legal net effect is that the party’s presidential ticket has been secured for the party leader.”

Kabatesi pointed out that Section 20 of the Political Parties Act, which the Secretary General and Odinga’s Presidential Campaign Secretariat have quoted applies to a political party which is fully registered under the Political Parties Act, 2011.

He argued that the legal net effect of the move is that the party’s presidential ticket has been secured for the party leader.

Mudavadi says the reason is once the party is fully registered, any attempt to procure an amendment would require the lengthy procedure, with no certainty to success.

“The reason (for the rushing to the registrar) is once the party is fully registered, any attempt to procure an amendment would require the lengthy procedure stipulated in Section 20, with no certainty as to success,” explained Kabetesi.

But, Odinga on Friday afternoon maintained that ODM will not have automatic nomination of the party’s flag bearer.

Speaking in Chonyi, Kilifi County during the burial of the mother to Bahari MP Benedict Fondo Gunda, the PM said the nomination of the party’s presidential candidate is an exercise that will be carried out by party delegates.

The premier also told non-ODM members stop interfering with internal affairs of the party.

He asserted that Mudavadi was in ODM to stay and dismissed allegations from party outsiders that he was shopping for a new party.

LABAN WANAMBISI

LABAN WANAMBISI

Laban Wanambisi is a Parliamentary and Political reporter. He joined the Capital Newsteam in 2005. Since then, he has reported on many of the major news events over the years including his first major assignment covering the 2005 National Referendum on the Draft Constitution, and several other subsequent key national and international events.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rfurukha Ren Ole Frukha

    MM doesnt have what it takes to be da next prezzo!. scandal everywhere am sure thats wil hinder and many more

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kenya-MyCountry/100002181148923 Kenya MyCountry

      MM has never spilled the blood of innocent Kenyans. rao has done that in abundance. What greater scandal than the irresponsibility of visiting violence on innocent, unarmed Kenyans in his sordid quest for power? Remember 1982 coup and PEV? Don’t be fooled by his extremely expensive re-branding (who is paying for it btw?). His propensity for violence is inherent in his DNA. He’s only walking free because of whatever secret deals he has made with his foreign masters. rao is only qualified to be a guest of the state in kamiti or naivasha, not a so-called PM of the R.O.K!!!!!!!

      • Aptbks

         Shame on you, especially if you happen to live in kenya you fool. what basis do u hv for saying who did what apart from the basis that we know hv landed same shameless baboons like yourself in trouble? Have some manners ….Nkt.

        • Oluoch

          Nyang nyongo, we r not stupid as u may perceive. The deal is done and Rao will be the flag bearer. And for that reason, expect the last member of pentagon to decamp and prepare to accept defeat in th upcoming elections. Why have all the luminaries left ODM???? Simply it has lost its original values n serves few selfish and coward individuals.

    • mekenyatoo

      You have no idea of what you are talking about Mr. 

  • http://kenyanbestforum.com/ Kenya Online Forum

    If I were mudavadi I would get a new party. There is no future in ODM for him

  • Jannadas

    Mr. Mudavadi You belong to ODM do please stay at home and be an asset to Hon.Raila for precidency
    you will be next in line for sure.

  • mekenyatoo

    Those calling for MM to stick with ODM are not sincere. ODM troops and bridgade have insisted that MM was a spent force in ODM. RAO and will pay for their own sins. MM is a national asset. Go MM.

  • nyakenda

    MM should quit ODM and stop kelele mingi. he needs to start his own party otherwise imagining that he will walk into any established party and get the presidential ticket is a pipe dream. (Maybe he can try Julia’s LPK) And imagining that UK and WR will ‘transfer’ their support to him should they be prevented to stand is also a fallacy. Votes are not bags of potatoes to be transferred at will. And to make it more juicier my crystal ball tells me that voters in central kenya will only vote for one of their own, if history is anything to go by. So if I were MM I would jump ship immediately before the April 30th deadline catches up!

  • http://www.facebook.com/namale.gamaliel Gamaliel Namale

    Why can’t MM himself talk instead of leaving such an issue to a private secretary?

  • Yahala

    MM departure from ODM is the result of the meeting with the two accused of crimes against humanity as confirmed by Luhya Youth Association.
    Godwilling with or without MM Raila will become the 4th president of the Republic Kenya.