Dear DPM Musalia Mudavadi,
I trust this letter finds you well. I know you must be hurting badly for being so gullible. But in all honesty Musalia, did you think Uhuru and Ruto would come to your house and hand you the Jubilee Presidential ticket on a silver platter? That was a big naivety on your part.
You have behaved like the biblical prodigical son that left his rich parent’s home to go and look for greater riches, only to find that life out there is cold, hard and brutal.
Didn’t Raila teach you about being a chess grandmaster, about being able to read ten moves ahead of the game? Did he not teach you about always not seeing things as they are, but rather, what is hidden under the table?
Great leaders display an aura of mystery, and keep people guessing on their next move. By constantly being read like a book by your political enemies, you have failed miserably.
There is nothing wrong with being the perfect Mr cool, calm and collected. However, beneath the veneer of calmness should be a cold, calculating and ruthless politician, who dispenses with enemies as they come.
By all means, play nice, when your enemies play nice, but immediately you detect the mood of the game changing, switch the gear to hardball. Politics, as life, is very brutal, and only the toughest survive.
However, Musalia, even though you are writhing in pain right now, Uhuru faces another explosive dilemma. He has to counter the powerful sentiments that have since emerged that he cannot be trusted to be a gentleman and honour his end of the bargain.
This will be a powerful and lethal propaganda weapon, especially if the message is pumped, day in day out, in Rift Valley and Western.
In Rift Valley, the message would be that if Uhuru hanged Musalia in broad daylight, why would he not do the same to Ruto?
In western, the propaganda message would be that its son was humiliated and made a laughing stock of the whole country, and the sympathy votes will come in abundance. If I were a campaign strategist for Cord, I would be salivating by now.
source: The star BY COLLINS MABINDA
