NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 30 — The Amani National Congress (ANC) has dismissed critics labeling its leader Musalia Mudavadi as a traitor saying the party will continue with its new trajectory with new allies.
Mudavadi’s Director of Communications, Kibisu Kabatesi, insisted ANC had no apologies to make over its decision to ditch allies in the OKA formation.
“ANC didn’t join OKA by invitation and has left without permission. Sour grapes won’t bring back OKA,” he wrote in an article published on Sunday.
Kabatesi went on to state that OKA had transformed itself into a holding ground for ODM leader Raila Odinga’s Azimio la Umoja Movement terming protests by Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka and KANU’s Gideon Moi as insincere.
“ANC rejected OKA being made a holding ground for Azimio,” he affirmed.
Musyoka, who walked out of Mudavadi’s ANC National Delegates Convention on January 23, accused Mudavadi of betraying his comrades disclosing that OKA had agreed on a presidential ticket that would have the ANC leader deputize him.
Wiper and KANU have since welcomed NARC Kenya, an outfit led by former Constitutional Affairs Minister Martha Karua, to the fold.
The Wiper leader said OKA, just like Azimio, will register a coalition party on which allied parties will field joint candidates in the August 9 General Election.
Mudavadi pronounced his 2022 agenda on January 23 at the Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi where he declared Azimio was not an option for ANC.
“The ANC stand, which I am privileged to pronounce is that the specter called Azimio is not an option, when it comes to partnerships,” he stated.
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The ANC leader said his decision was driven by the quest to vanquish “personality cults” that have transcended Kenya’s political landscape for decades.
Mudavadi made a surprise announcement unveiling Deputy President William Ruto as his new ally after promising a “political earthquake”.
“We’re here; because we have transcended narrow individual agendas. We’ve begun the journey to end personality cults and the impunity that goes with them,” he told delegates and allies who included members of Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA).
He said the new political formation will seek to replace what he termed as personality cults with “elevated national goals, values and agendas.”
