Kalonzo ejection exposes G7 hegemony

There is a dangerous hegemonic intolerance within the G7 leadership. Its ugly and real Frankenstein nature has now been exposed. The way in which Kalonzo Musyoka is being unceremoniously ejected from the amorphous G7, clearly shows that the Uhuru-Ruto stewardship is infested with extremely bigoted beliefs that only the two of them can determine for Kenyans who should take over the leadership of this country after Mwai Kibaki.

This is even when it is abundantly clear that none of them can be the country’s next President because they are, for all practical purposes, suspected criminals who don’t even qualify to contest for the top leadership of Kenya. With that in mind, they suspect Kalonzo’s pretended close relationship with them could only be based on the fulfilment of his political ambition of becoming the only acceptable alternative presidential candidate of the G7.

It may well be true that Kalonzo Musyoka is an unwelcome guest in the G7. It may also be true that Kalonzo’s presence in the group is anchored on his own hidden ambition to take over from Kibaki by “slipping through” Uhuru and Ruto. But whichever way one looks at Kalonzo’s association with the G7, his presence in the group strengthens it with millions of Kamba votes. The Kikuyu-Kalenjin power structure is a weaker entity without Kalonzo. Indeed the desired KKK strategy to take over the leadership of this country through tribal grouping remains a mere dream without the Kamba leader.

What therefore is the true reason for all the bitterness against Kalonzo? Between Uhuru and Ruto, it is the former rather than the latter, who speaks with bitterness whenever he makes references to the VP’s political ambitions. He can simply not swallow the idea of being born the undisputed prince of the House of Mumbi, and therefore the unquestionable heir to the Kikuyu throne, ending up in jail and an insignificant Kamba commoner taking over Kenya’s presidency. To him that position is his birth right.

On the other hand Ruto sees Kalonzo as a dangerous but very necessary enemy. If he ends up in jail the young Kalenjin leader doesn’t really care who takes over the leadership of Kenya as long as that person is not Raila Odinga. Indeed if Kalonzo were to succeed Kibaki the Kalenjin would still manage to get many important positions in the central Government as they would still control the majority of the counties in the Rift Valley which is, by and large, the bread basket of this country. No government can survive without feeding its people.

If, by a miraculous eventuality, Ruto and Uhuru find themselves free to contest Kenya’s presidency, then the two of them can mutually be expected to kiss their relationship goodbye as none of them is really prepared to step down for the other to become Kenya’s next president. The latent animosity between the two is clearly noticeable whenever they address public meetings in the Rift Valley and in the Central Provinces. When they are in the Rift Valley, Ruto is treated by the crowd as the undisputed G7 presidential candidate to face Raila Odinga; and whenever they are facing a Central Province crowd, Uhuru becomes the undisputed candidate. That is why they are not prepared to form one single political party that would unite them as a team.

Each one of them has his own political party and there is no possibility at all that one of them will step down for the other. The idea of them forming the next government as a team is merely building castles in the air and a crowd pulling gimmick. Now they are paddling in the same canoe because they are facing more or less the same criminal charges at the ICC and the purpose of the so called joint prayer meetings is to politicize the cases by mobilizing Kikuyus and Kalenjins by making them feel that their entire communities are facing the criminal charges in The Hague.

If and when Uhuru and Ruto are free to seek presidential ticket from their different political parties, they will all be visiting Ukambani separately to look for votes. At that time they will wish they did not mistreat Kalonzo as they are doing at the moment. But Kalonzo is not as weak as he appears to be. His strategy was indeed to use both Uhuru and Ruto as stepping stones to State House. Now that he has been discovered he must have a plan “B” that will still make him a presidential candidate.
If by that time Uhuru and Ruto will be barred from contesting, Kalonzo will still claim to be their friend who will probably promise to drop all charges against them when he becomes the President.

He will claim he was the only man who went round the world trying to get the case in The Hague transferred to Kenya. If at that time Uhuru and Ruto will have identified a puppet candidate to face both Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka the puppet’s popularity will be so insignificant because whoever they choose to be their dummy will neither command the total respect of the Kalenjins nor that of the Kikuyus.
Kalenjins want Ruto to be the next president not a puppet chosen by him; and the Kikuyus want Uhuru Kenyatta at State House but not a puppet chosen by him.

If Ruto and Uhuru don’t run in the next election because of the provisions of Chapter Six of the new Constitution, then the race to State House will indeed be between Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka. There is no way Musalia Mudavadi can get the ODM ticket and if he pulls out of the party he will have committed the final political suicide and he knows it.

When all is said and done the politics of personalities will come to a natural end the moment ODM officially nominate Raila Odinga as its candidate and he names Musalia Mudavadi as his running mate. That is when politics in this country will change as ODM insists on debating on issues during campaigns instead of personalities. The millions of unemployed young Kenyans who will determine the future leader of this land will massively back the party of policies and dump the demagogues of tribal gansterism.