While the Kenyatta side feels they are not getting much help from the Odinga team, the leadership of the Orange party reads political betrayal by the President.
The DP’s supporters, who have repeatedly lamented that President Kenyatta reneged on a deal to support Dr Ruto’s presidential bid after his 10-year tenure in office, have similarly been reminded that nobody is owed a political debt
It could have been an innocent statement made at the spur of the moment, but the Senate Minority Leader James Orengo may well have given away a deep secret on the status of President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga political dalliance when he claimed on Tuesday that the President’s inaccessibility was responsible for the current revenue allocation impasse in the Senate.
And the Siaya senator’s comments were not made out of context. There was a buildup to the utterances following threats by Senate Majority Whip Irungu Kangata, a week earlier, that the Kenyatta-allied politicians would abandon the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) if the Odinga-allied MPs did not help them to push through the revenue-allocation formula, based on population size — a position some see as favouring the Mt Kenya region.
