From: JEFF
Date: Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:19 AM

By Jeff Otieno

KANU National Vice chairman Gideon Moi has re-scheduled his visit to Nyanza Province until next week.

Gedion whose meeting was slated for (tomorrow) Thursday this week confided to this journalist that he has decided to hold the crucial meeting next week due to what he termed as “inevitable official pressing issues”.

All the 21 KANU branch officials had been summoned to Kisumu by the patron Tom Alila to brain storm on issues bedeviling the former ruling party and to also finalize plans to welcome the guest.

During the marathon 6 hours meeting yesterday, inside sources confided to the press that tension was high and the party officials were sharply divided and at one time had to be restrained from going physical with each other.

A camp allied to finance minister and KANU chairman Uhuru Kenyatta read mischief in the whole arrangement to host the resilient Gedion Moi.

Gedions camp however down played the sharp division and instead urged party members to be more focused on reviving the party instead of jostling for cheap publicity and supremacy.

Kisumu KANU branch office is said to be at the centre of controversy with a clique of officials sympathetic to other rival parties being accused of benefiting from the party’s properties (modern rental kiosks) which generates close to Kshs.400,000/= instead of committed and genuine officials.

Gedion who is also the son of former president Daniel Arap Moi has also declared his presidential ambitions come 2012.

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Subject: GIDEON MOI POSTPONES HIS NYANZA KANU MEETING