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Ford-Kenya leader Moses Wetang’ula has maintained that opposition leader Raila Odinga is to blame for his removal as Senate Minority leader.
In an interview with Daily Nation, Wetang'ula claimed that Odinga orchestrated his ouster through a series of secret meetings with senators drawn from the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM).
“I know for a fact that nothing happens in the rank and file of ODM without the knowledge, sanction or even approval of its leader,” Wetang’ula said.
The Bungoma senator, who last weekend announced the end of his engagement with Odinga, said he has since moved on and is now focused on his future political career.
“I have no ill feeling towards anybody. I have a future to plan and people are looking up to me for leadership. My 10-year support for Mr Odinga has left me a stranger in the palace.”
Questioned on who between Raila and Siaya senator James Orengo plotted his impeachment, Wetang'ula noted: "There is no difference between the two. I was thoroughly pained when, during the reconciliation meeting at Panafric Hotel, ODM legislators humiliated and insulted me in the full view of their leader. Mr. Odinga just sat there, listened to it all, and in the end, only asked that we go for a retreat."
"From his body language and the statements made in that meeting, I concluded that the events of my removal had been orchestrated and rehearsed in his presence.”
He went ahead to expose Odinga as a bully, revealing how he imposed decisions on the other three Nasa co-principals including Musalia Mudavadi and Kalonzo Musyoka.
Wetang'ula disclosed how Odinga dismantled Nasa coordinating committee, whose members included Orengo, former Machakos senator Johnson Muthama, Tongaren MP Eseli Simiyu and Nambale MP Sakwa Bunyasi and replaced it with a technical committee headed by economist David Ndii.
“The committee was prominently ODM,” said Wetang’ula.
“It had Mr Odinga’s lawyers, strategists, advisors, and party members. We had reached a point where issues were first discussed by this group agreed upon and the summit only called in to ratify the decision. This is not the best way of running a coalition.”
The Ford Kenya Party chief said the decision to boycott the October 26th repeat presidential election was purely Odinga's decision that was not approved by him, Mudavadi and Kalonzo.
“It was not exhaustively discussed by the summit and so we reluctantly agreed to it,” he said.