By: JEFF OTIENO

The former ruling party KANU is currently embroiled in a vigorous Campaign to clean up its house a head of 2012 polls.

According to sources within the party’s top echelons the abrasive campaign onslaught to revive the former ruling party has been finalized.

KANU operative Tom Alila told journalists that areas such as Nyanza and Western Provinces have been earmarked by the co-ordinating committee whose mandate is to traverse the regions to recruit and popularize the party.

Alila argued that the former ruling party’s popularity had diminished courtesy of a clique whose agenda he described as “egocentric and parochial”.

“KANU is the only party in the country with known structures at the grassroot and therefore we won’t allow a clique whose agenda is not clear to kill it”, he said.

When pressed further by this writer to state where he belonged in terms of camps, he remained none committal. In KANU there is a camp allied to finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and the other tilting to the son of former president Daniel Arap Moi, Gedion Moi.

Moi’s camp recently made it clear that come 2012 elections the party will go it alone. But Uhuru’s camp which joined President Mwai Kibaki’s bandwagon under PNU flagship in the last disputed elections hasn’t made its stand clear yet.

Last weekend, the party had a bee hive of activities in the larger southern Nyanza doing recruitment and sensitization and in a fortnight to come they will roll their gears in Western Province towns like Kakamega, Bungoma, Busia among others.

With the prevailing wrangles in the ODM and PNU, KANU seems to be strategizing to capitalize in what pundits have described as inevitable looming fall outs.

Further, it will be interesting to see what mechanisms the former ruling party will deploy to wrestle a clout being enjoyed by ODM top brass under the tutelage of the Prime Minister Raila Odinga (Nyanza) and Musalia Mudavadi (Western).

But like it’s said, in a game of politics anything is possible; time will be the best judge.

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From: JEFF
Date: Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:26 AM
Subject: KANU NOW GEARS UP A HEAD OF 2012 POLLS