Have Luhyas Discovered G-7's Anomalies

[subsaharanite]

Hey guys, I got this from the Star. Although I do not fully understand the western politics, I guess Luhya's are discovering the anomalies with the G-7 line up. They seem to suggest to Eugene that he is being taken for a ride, which I agree with. The question is, what say you? Its my believe that the Luhya community, just like Kisii is one of the most unpredictable group politically. You never know how things will go. Anybody well conversant with the dynamics in the Luhya region?

The Western Elders Advisory Council yesterday demanded that presidential hopeful Saboti MP Eugene Wamalwa stops associating with members of the G7 Alliance fronted by the Eldoret North MP Willam Ruto, DPM Uhuru Kenyatta and Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka. Council spokesman Lucas Watta said after long deliberations, the elders have resolved that Wamalwa dumps the G7 Alliance and instead begin working with the Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Deputy Prime Minister Musalia.

"Eugene's continued association with this group is counter productive....it can only serve to cause disunity at a time when we want to achieve unity and present a formidable team that is unbeatable in next year's election...he can no longer afford to be selfish and he must put the interests of people he wants to lead first," Watta said in Bungoma.

At the weekend Sports minister Paul Otuoma and Budalang'i MP Ababu Namwamba accused Wamalwa of working against the Luhya unity courtesy of his association with the G7 while Foreign Affairs minister Moses Wetang'ula said both Wamalwa and former Ford Kenya chairman Musikari Kombo had no stake in the alliance.

The advisory council is made up of elders drawn from the Luhya, Sabaot and Teso communities who have been involved in a series of consultations lately with their call coming after Cherenganyi parliamentary aspirant Musoke Muliro asked Wamalwa to check his presidential ambitions and re-align himself with the ODM.

Last week, Musoke said Wamalwa was being "misused" by the G7 Alliance to cause unnecessary divisions among the Luhya and needs to realise "he was only a decoy planted by the real leaders of the mooted alliance."These people will never support Eugene for the presidency when push came to shove," they said.

Mudavadi has gone on record telling leaders ''not to gamble with over the country's leadership by engaging in tribal politics... we must be careful, united and focused in a strong political party as small parties will simply not survive." Luhya Council of Elders chairman Patrick Wangamati has been tasked convene a meeting of the 24 legislators from Western to chart the way forward .

[politicalmaniac]

Eugene should ask kituyi just how helpful his close relationship with the beefy DR CM was. Dr CM was the mafiya point man in western just after the epic 2002 election which saw "project muthamaki" get a meagre and palty 30% of the National vote.
The mischevious kituyi forgot who buttered his bread and quickly became a mafiya quisling, and in the process he illegally acquired land from a widow - about 300 Ha.
But he soon lost the F-K ( I mean Ford Kenya folks, and not the epithet spewed at me by jakaswanga) chair to the turncoat discombobulated kombo who then crashed the party to the ground when he too, wanted a taste of mafiya honey.

Eugene knows that folks hate his romping about with the bloody mafiya wa mt kenya but I guess that mafiya drug manoey is sweet.

Eugene is being used as a wrecking ball, and we know what happens to them. They start to crack and show wear and tear and eventually they fall apart. All the bigwigs from Western that are kimbelembele in their mafiya support have wilted like weeds under the sun.

He is next

[b6k]

This is a very positive development. It's good to see the wazees are seeing through the unholy alliance.

[phil]

It's not possible for persons who are known to be on Ruto's payroll to see the anomaly. Eugene was promised Rift Valley vote if he could split the Luhya vote (read-overcome Musalia Mudavadi's influence) and because he delivered Ikolomani that dream is now supposedly coming to reality!

Through Eugene's shenanigans and Kombo's poor leadership, FORD-Kenya a one time official opposition in parliament and a government in waiting, has been split right down the middle and now Eugene is probably staring at his first and last stint in an elective position.

To imagine that a suspended William Ruto had promised Eugene Wamalwa the position of Minister for Foreign Affairs while he himself had his own appeal to President Kibaki to be reinstated in the Higher Education docket shows exactly how much of fallacy this whole G-7 arrangement is and also confirms the worst case of grandiose delusion on the person of Ruto.

And that this is the same individual who was once paraded nationally by the likes of Jimmy Kibaki and later by Mungiki's Maina Njenga who championed him as a generation change candidate, before he was dropped like a hot potato.

[gemagema]

The only way Eugene can expose himself politically and nationally is if he hangs around these prominent politicians, otherwise solo, he would never attract lots of media attention. Hence he is wise – who knew him before KKK and G7? Not many. Now, he even affords a slot in the opinion polls. However, am also sure he knows as we all know that the affair ends there – a Ruto or Uhuru, moreso Kalonzo can never step down for Eugene.

So let us not bother about him...when politics becomes hot the last 4-5 months before elections, Eugene will be shoved to his right place. The Luhyas are largely pro-ODM and I already see Eugene having no choice but to respond to the calls of the Luhya electorate