By OTIENO OTIENO
Posted Saturday, February 4 2012 at 18:30
Posted Saturday, February 4 2012 at 18:30
The January transfer window in English football closed last week without the excitement normally associated with big money signings.
This means fans of the popular English soccer premier league will have to wait until after May to follow the drama of frenetic off-pitch action involving clubs either putting their star players for auction or driving hard bargains to acquire their services.
There is never a dull moment though in Kenya where politics is played and excites passion more or less like the English football.
With elections expected later this year or early next year depending on whether the President and the Prime Minister can agree on anything one more time, the political transfer window is officially open.
Defections, as the election-related ritual swapping of political parties is called in the Kenyan political lexicon, will most likely start dominating news headlines in the coming days.
Past experience shows that the juiciest defection stories are reserved for deadline day or thereabouts.
But early transfer gossip has it that we may yet see a marquee defection well before the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission slams the door on nomadic politicians.
Now, ‘Musalia Mudavadi to G7 alliance’ doesn’t sound credible if you consider how key he has been to ODM power plans from the moment he was named Mr Raila Odinga’s running mate in the last election.
The deputy Prime Minister and ODM deputy party leader has also been fairly loyal to his boss even in turbulent times.
Until now he even looked cool to the idea of playing second fiddle to Mr Odinga once again as the PM prepares to make another charge towards the presidency.
But some people familiar with the goings-on in ODM claim that Mr Mudavadi’s head has been sufficiently turned by the prospects of bigger things on the rival team.
They cite the possibility that the star players on the other team might at some stage consider themselves damaged goods due to recurrent injuries suffered at The Hague and opt for a surrogate in the big match.
They claim that the Sabatia MP’s current robust challenge for the ODM presidential ticket is a dummy, and that he is baiting the overzealous PM’s defenders to foul him so that he can take a walk.
Well, if there were even a grain of truth to this rumour one would imagine Mr Mudavadi wouldn’t need much prompting with Mr Odinga’s squad full of hard-tacklers, shirt-taggers, elbowists, and head-butters.
jkotieno@ke.nationmedia.com
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