Political nemesis President Uhuru Kenyatta (L) and Raila Odinga (R)

Massive exodus from CORD Coalition to Jubilee seem to have been accelerated by the botched ODM elections at Kasarani. The latest bunch of politicians to jump ship are from the coastal region. They have termed the ODM elections as 'Democracy on Trial'. Ironically, that was Raila Odinga's title to his denunciation speech after he lost the 4th March 2013 elections to Uhuru Kenyatta. Raila termed the elections fraudlent and declared he'd seek legal redress as he felt democracy was on trial.

Sarcastically, the exodus from his party are down to the party's autocracy and dictatorial nature with Raila being accused of high handedness and micromanaging  the party for his own personal gains as opposed to the interests of the whole country. The coastal religion religiously voted for Raila Odinga in 2007 and was one of the epicenters of the Post Election Violence  (PEV). Youths who had sworn allegiance to Raila took to the streets and rioted for weeks in what they claimed that their candidate of choice had been rigged out.

Despite the setback, five years later, the region chose to keep their faith in Raila Odinga and his CORD Coalition carried the day though nationally, he again lost to the current president Uhuru Kenyatta. Their faith seem to have worn out now as they also accuse the coalition's principle leader of opposing each development agenda of the current government for the sake of it and without any fundamental grounds. Some of the projects that the leader has been strongly opposed to are of deep economic importance to the region namely the LAPSSET Corridor project, Ramisi Sugar factory revival and the standard gauge railway line. These projects, once complete, are set to change the fortunes of the region and make it one of the richest in the country.

It is on the back of this that MP Mishi Juma from Mombasa and her Kilifi counterpart Aisha Karisa have jumped into the Jubilee bandwagon. They have sworn to worn with the government to ensure that the projects being undertaken by the government for the welfare of the region are not sabotage and are successful and to the benefit of the people.

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A Jubilee government insider has at last revealed their moles in their bitter rivals camp, CORD. Whether the revelation was intentional or erroneous, is yet to be determined.

The said moles are claimed to be the ones responsible for disrupting the ODM elections in Kasarani and the group is said to be made up of well educated young elite politicians in ODM, a party whose patron is Raila Odinga who ran for presidency in 2007 and lost to his bitter rival and perennial nemesis retired President Mwai Kibaki. ODM is one of the main partners in the CORD Coalition, the other being Kalonzo Musyoka's Wiper Party, formerly ODM-K.

It is claimed that a host of leaders elected on CORD ticket in the 4th March election are leaning towards Jubilee. The list includes Nairobi Governor, Dr. Evans Kidero, who being the governor of the capital city is considered to be the most powerful of all governors. Interestingly, Dr. Kidero was conspicuously absent from the ODM elections at Kasarani, feigning unavailability due to a tight schedule.Bitter Jubilee critic and CORD's Ukambani political luminary, Machakos Senator Johnstone Muthama, is also said to be warming up to Jubilee and is set to ditch CORD soon. His CORD compatriot and fellow Machakos politician and governor, Dr. Alfred Mutua is said to be a Jubilee sympathiser and politically works very closely with Jubilee than he does CORD or Wiper. Mombasa Governor, another of the strong governors, Ali Hassan Joho is also said to be Jubilee-allied.

The revelation of the by the Jubilee insider was done through social media outlet Facebook, where he posted the names of the said moles, who are believed to be leaders of a wider group within CORD that is allied to Jubilee government. The said Facebook posting of the insider is below:

"In a Jubilee dominated Bunge, there are only two CORD chairmen of committees. One is Adan Keynan. The other is Tawfiq Ababu Namwamba. Vijana wetu. Kazi safi."

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