Musalia Mudavadi Reluctantly Campaigns For State House As His Indecisiveness Is Exposed Yet Again

Kenyan Politics: Focus on a 2007 Presidential Candidate

Mudavadi will go down in history as Kenya's shortest serving vice president having held the office for about two months prior to the 2002 general elections.

After leaving Kanu for the opposition in 2002, Mudavadi rushed back to president Moi and was rewarded with the vice presidency position amid signals that Moi's Kanu regime was going to lose as majority of his foot soldiers had already deserted him.

As usual, Mudavadi did not see the signs and mainly due to his indecisiveness, Moi easily convinced him to return to Kanu at a time when the party's future looked bleak and its presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta was headed for defeat.

It was a grave mistake which saw Musalia pay so dearly for it as he also lost his Sabatia parliamentary seat to political greenhorn, pastor Moses Akaranga.

Mudavadi is still paying for this mistake to this day, as he has no political platform to speak from and his detractors say if he was unable to secure a parliamentary seat in 2002, how can he manage the presidency this time round?

The 46 year old presidential aspirant also has skeletons in his closet which have also affected him so much that he can't speak too loudly where men are discussing family life and values.

In a dramatic event during his heady days as finance minister, Musalia's wife gave birth to a 'colored' boy, which raised more than concern at the Mudavadi home with his mother instructing him to do away with the wife as her infidelity was unacceptable considering his high profile public position.

The indecisive former minister kept the woman who went ahead and sired more children for him. The Standard Newspaper had the story but Musalia used lots of money and his influence including threats not to have the story published.

However, the alternative media notoriously referred to as the gutter press had a field day with the story to the chagrin of the then minister who chose not to comment about the issue.

Even as he goes around conducting his lukewarm campaign for the ODM presidential nominations, Mudavadi knows well in his mind that he cant make it save for Raila to come out and say 'Mudavadi tosha' which is a very, very, very long shot.

The main reason why Musalia is bothering to go round asking for votes is the simple fact that members of his Luhyia community also expect one of their own to occupy the highest office in the land.

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