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By API
The move by Miguna Miguna? Not good for Prime Minister Raila Odinga, but good for William Ruto! ODM’s never-ending crisis continues.
Suspended and Bitter. Miguna takes a step. That of revenge against ODM and his former boss Raila Odinga. He now will shift allegiance to Suspended Higher Education Minister William Ruto’s camp. This is the camp opposed to Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s rise to the presidency.
This will be a blow to Raila Odinga and ODM, if reports from our observers is confirmed. Now that it is emerging that Miguna will join Ruto because he angered by the way the PM’s office has treated him, especially quoting PM’s PS and Member of Parliament Jakoyo Midiwo as his nightmare, this is one way by him to revenge in the maximum. A revenge that will hurt the PM in a big way if not contained immediately.
Midiwo has come out accusing Miguna for having travelled to the Hague (ICC)in April when the case against Ruto and the other 5 was on for the first time. Midiwo says Miguna should not have travelled abroad at that time. Looking at the way Midiwo looks at things, it seems he is of the opinion that Miguna had grown horns at the Prime Minister’s office, pushing everbody else around because he was close to the PM.
Moving to Ruto camp will most definitely damage ODM. Miguna has a lot of valuable information on the way his former boss and the people running the ODM secretariat thing strategy-wise and this will help the Ruto camp in the move to box ODM into a corner.
Analysts API has spoken to say it was the wrong time to suspend Miguna now when the party is struggling with its image. If the divisions in the party widens, that will damage it and reduce its popularity. This may curtail Raila’s chances for big things come 2012 presidential elections.
The wise thing to do in this case is for ODM to bring Miguna back to the fold before he starts damaging the for the party. The danger in sacking an advisor is the fact that such people know how their boss thinks and in anger they may expose everything potraying the boss as a non-thinker even if it is not true.
Miguna will not go quietly considering the way he has been vocal during his tenure at the Prime Minister’s office.
Source: http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/kenya-former-aide-to-prime-minister-raila-odinga-mr-miguna-miguna-shifts-allegiance-to-william-ruto-after-he-was-shown-the-door/
Raila should act now lest Miguna acts like Githongo by releasing all the PM’s secrets,tricks and strategies to the Ruto camp.
I do agree that this move by Miguna could also greatly boost Ruto given that Ruto doesn’t have people in his team who are critical in their thinking or visionaries