It was in the course of the Harambee House negotiations where these documents were tabled that Raila dropped the ball. As people were debating and discussing, Raila suddenly said: “Your Excellency, I have a suggestion to make. I’m not sure if the suggestion will be accepted or rejected, but I get the feeling that we are not making progress. What would the PNU team’s response be if we, the ODM side, suggested that we adopt a pure presidential system?”

Raila finished and fiddled with his pen. There was complete silence. Everyone was shocked. Uhuru was the first to recover and he said: “Your Excellency maybe our side need time to consult briefly before we can comment on the suggestion. But for the record, the PNU team appreciates the ODM’s realisation that the presidential system is best for this country.”

“OK, OK. We can break for a few minutes,” the President said. The President and his PNU team left the room. The ODM team talked in hushed tones, mostly agreeing with Raila. I held my tongue briefly. I knew that Raila had betrayed us again. When the PNU team returned, they stated that they were grateful for ODM’s climb-down and would support the decision. Raila, Mudavadi, Ngilu, Mutakha and I then proceeded to his Treasury Building office for a prognosis. And it was there that Raila really shocked me. As soon as we sat down and started discussions, with Mutakha and I pointing out the “difficulties we will face trying to convince our people to support a presidential system that had all along been identified with the PNU team and which ODM had criticised before,”

Raila became agitated and growled: “Miguna, you can’t win all the time; ok? Henry [Kosgey] complained to me that you were rude to him the other day. In your so-called classical examples, you had removed all power from the President and gave it over to the Prime Minister. This is an elected President, yet he has no power. Leave this to politicians…We will explain the decision to the people.” Raila was clearly angry with me

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#CORD softens its stance on calls for referendum, says its aim is not to deny Kenyans the right to elect president




Nani alisema iko CORd spokesman kwa Wazua?

Your kind are so confused....when some CORD people speak it's attributed to Raila, others oppose the same stand and now they opposed Raila....look at my 1st response to this poat.....the onlt referendum Raila has talked about is the increment of county alloctiona.....com'on guys, your brains can do better than this......sometimes it's difficult to engage youth wingers with zero understanding of what they post.