Thirty years after the Saba Saba protests triggered the battle for the restoration of multiparty politics in Kenya veterans of that struggle might be troubled to see that the current torchbearer of the country's opposition is Musalia Mudavadi the establishment's quintessential grey man...

Amani National Congress leader Musalia Mudavadi and Ford-Kenya's Moses Wetang'ula boast 26 MPs between them...

It is a question of when not if Odinga's right-hand man in Nasa Musalia Mudavadi will formally quit the alliance...

Meanwhile the ethnic coalition of the National Super Alliance of which the Luo in ODM once formed the core is also disintegrating because Luhya leaders Musalia Mudavadi and his Amani National Congress and Moses Simiyu Wetangula of the Ford-Kenya party have fielded their own candidates...

These include Musalia Mudavadi (Luhya) Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka (Kamba) and Moses Simiyu Wetangula (Bukusu); their supporters say the report has no legal or constitutional basis...

Nyikal and the Luo MPs were referring to Moses Simiyu Wetangula's Ford-Kenya whose Secretary General Eseli Simiyu has repeatedly levelled the charge against Raila and to Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi Nasa's deputy who advocates a stronger opposition...

Former leaders of the opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa) Raila Odinga Kalonzo Musyoka Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetang'ula led government teams around the country to promote the card...