Foreign Affairs chief administrative secretary Ababu Namwamba is trying to reach out to Raila Odinga to mend fences after he went to bed with the ruling Jubilee party ahead of polls in 2017. Raila himself is now under the blankets with Jubilee.
Ababu, sources said, intends to extend an olive branch and beg for forgiveness from Raila for mistakes he committed against him and ODM party now that Raila and Uhuru Kenyatta are reading from the same script.
However, his efforts are being thwarted by three ODM politicians from Nyanza. Namwamba who recently earned another name “the flying CAS for his love of hopping from one international conference to another is an ever smiling guy to the cameras, but deep inside things are not as rosy.
This comes in the wake of the current political shenanigans in the country where it is becoming clearer each day that the William Ruto whom Ababu had started aligning with, might not automatically become the most preferred presidential candidate come 2022, as was expected by many political minds.
The Ruto for President 2022 campaign had led many politicians to align with the DP, including Ababu, who stormed out of ODM towards 2017 general elections, spewing out venom and vitriol in all manner of
His dumping of the party that gave him a political life was seen by many as suicidal and indeed it led to his defeat by Raphael Wanjala.
Now Ababu has since been seeking ways to reach Raila to seek acceptance to allow him to return to the party he dumped in 2017.
If Ababu’s prayers are to be answered, it would be the only way he could make a comeback on the Kenyan political arena as an MP. But only if he manages to beat Wanjala whom Ababu had relegated to the cold for 10 years.