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Standard Digital News - Kenya : This is why Kidero must seek to be President as a Kenyan, not a Luo
There's strong evidence to suggest that Mr Kibaki actually lost – although he was declared the victor – the 2007 elections because PNU couldn't assemble a commanding tribal coalition.
Fast forward to 2013. Dr Kidero is no fool – he knows the Jubilee coalition of Uhuru Kenyatta's TNA and William Ruto's URP pulled a rabbit out of a hat because of the solid backing of the Kikuyu and Kalenjin, their tribal strongholds.
Dr Kidero believes he must secure the Luo first, then bargain with other ethnic barons to ascend to State House.
Dr Kidero, the Nairobi urbanite, is going back to his ancestral roots in Luo Nyanza. Some pundits think he's being used by Jubilee to discombobulate Mr Odinga, and wrestle the mantle of the Luo Nation from Agwambo.
He has endured many unflattering epithets from the ODM column. Like Rongo MP Dalmas Otieno, Dr Kidero has been dubbed a Jubilee mole inODM. But methinks Dr Kidero has more Nairobi cunning in him thanODM bluebloods give him credit for.
It is not improbable that he has been orchestrated by Jubilee. But it is plausible that he could be using Jubilee's state resources to sink his teeth into Luo Nyanza.
Why shouldn't he scratch Jubilee's back if they are scratching his?
The peril for Nairobi Governor is that Luo Nyanza is littered with political corpses of those who've dared to dethrone the Odingas. The iconic Tom Mboya – the father of Dr Kidero's wife, Dr Susan Akello Mboya – viciously fought Jaramogi only to be eliminated by those around Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.
Minister William Odongo Omamo was a political casualty in the court of the Odingas. Minister Raphael Tuju, another quisling, fell by the wayside after being egged on against Mr Odinga by Mr Kibaki's NAK Mt Kenya acolytes.
Even ODM's Anyang' Nyong'o and James Orengo faced the wrath of the Luo Nation when they attempted to politically decapitate Agwambo. Dr Kidero should beware of the guillotine.
I have nothing against Dr Kidero. He has worked hard, and true to capitalism, he's entitled to his success. It's great to see a poor kid from the streets of Nairobi rise to the country's most hallowed boardrooms and political pinnacles.
But if Dr Kidero is to convince me and other Kenyans to support him – against anyone, including Mr Odinga – he must not "devolve" into a tribal kingpin.
There's strong evidence to suggest that Mr Kibaki actually lost – although he was declared the victor – the 2007 elections because PNU couldn't assemble a commanding tribal coalition.
Fast forward to 2013. Dr Kidero is no fool – he knows the Jubilee coalition of Uhuru Kenyatta's TNA and William Ruto's URP pulled a rabbit out of a hat because of the solid backing of the Kikuyu and Kalenjin, their tribal strongholds.
Dr Kidero believes he must secure the Luo first, then bargain with other ethnic barons to ascend to State House.
Dr Kidero, the Nairobi urbanite, is going back to his ancestral roots in Luo Nyanza. Some pundits think he's being used by Jubilee to discombobulate Mr Odinga, and wrestle the mantle of the Luo Nation from Agwambo.
He has endured many unflattering epithets from the ODM column. Like Rongo MP Dalmas Otieno, Dr Kidero has been dubbed a Jubilee mole inODM. But methinks Dr Kidero has more Nairobi cunning in him thanODM bluebloods give him credit for.
It is not improbable that he has been orchestrated by Jubilee. But it is plausible that he could be using Jubilee's state resources to sink his teeth into Luo Nyanza.
Why shouldn't he scratch Jubilee's back if they are scratching his?
The peril for Nairobi Governor is that Luo Nyanza is littered with political corpses of those who've dared to dethrone the Odingas. The iconic Tom Mboya – the father of Dr Kidero's wife, Dr Susan Akello Mboya – viciously fought Jaramogi only to be eliminated by those around Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.
Minister William Odongo Omamo was a political casualty in the court of the Odingas. Minister Raphael Tuju, another quisling, fell by the wayside after being egged on against Mr Odinga by Mr Kibaki's NAK Mt Kenya acolytes.
Even ODM's Anyang' Nyong'o and James Orengo faced the wrath of the Luo Nation when they attempted to politically decapitate Agwambo. Dr Kidero should beware of the guillotine.
I have nothing against Dr Kidero. He has worked hard, and true to capitalism, he's entitled to his success. It's great to see a poor kid from the streets of Nairobi rise to the country's most hallowed boardrooms and political pinnacles.
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