Is Governor Mutua Slowly Ditching Cord For President Kenyatta's Jubilee Coalition?

Machakos County Governor Dr Alfred Mutua’s breakaway from the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD)  seems almost certain after his frequent opposing positions on issues at the center of the Opposition alliance’s political strategy.

 he has in recent occasions shown vocal opposition to a series of CORD rallies including the much-publicized  Saba Saba rally on July 7.Despite having been elected through Wiper Democratic Party which is an affiliate of Cord, Mutua has been seen to sing the tune of Jubilee urging his people to focus on development other than concentrate in mere politicking. 

A case in point is Mutua’s repeated calls to local people to shun the series of political rallies convened by the CORD leaders to push the Government into national dialogue conference. Indeed, Mutua skipped the Machakos rally held on July 6 to drum up support for the Saba Saba event even as his counterparts Kivutha Kibwana (Makueni) and Julius Malombe (Kitui) joined CORD leaders at Kenyatta Stadium for the event.

 burial of retired former Chief of General Staff Jackson Mulinge, Mutua made a grand entry into the arena side by side with President Kenyatta. Observers believe his grand arrival at the venue was calculated to send a key political statement that he was ahead in the pecking order, arriving after other politicians had reported earlier to usher the President into the venue.

 And throughout the ceremony, Mutua sat next to, and occasionally chatted with the President. He appeared to have little time for CORD principals Raila Odinga, Moses Wetang’ula and Kalonzo who sat barely five meters to his left.

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