No knowing what legal changes Uhuru, Raila will put before Parliament

Nasa leaders Moses Wetang'ula and Musalia Mudavadi during a rally in Mbale town, Vihiga County on March 24, 2018. PHOTO | ISAAC WALE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

What you need to know:

ODM, hitherto the largest minority party, is now an accessory of the majority Jubilee.

Orengo now sounds as if he is the keeper of President Uhuru Kenyatta's diary.

Bar the shouting, the National Super Alliance is dead. But, beware. Its death is but a small window on the full screen on which danger is writ terribly large.

Therefore, what we should be discussing is the future of Parliament and democracy.

Why? Thanks to the private deal between President Uhuru Kenyatta and erstwhile opposition kingpin Raila Odinga made public on March 9, the latter’s Orange Democratic Movement, hitherto the largest minority party, is now an accessory of the majority Jubilee party.

SARCASTIC

But it has attitude. So Siaya Senator James Aggrey Bob Orengo advised other Nasa affiliate parties led by former Vice-Presidents Kalonzo Musyoka and Musalia Mudavadi and Bungoma Senator Moses Wetang’ula to give the President and Mr Odinga space to prosecute their deal.

Mr Odinga himself sarcastically asked an ODM meeting: “Where were you on January 30?”

He had Mr Musyoka, Mr Wetang’ula and Mr Mudavadi in his crosshairs for they chickened out of his illegal investiture on the said date as the people’s president.

RUTHLESS

And it is why ODM senators would ruthlessly plot and swiftly oust Mr Wetang’ula, the Ford Kenya party leader, as minority leader and replace him with Mr Orengo, allegedly without the knowledge or say so of Mr Odinga.

In other words, the investiture was aimed at forcing the government to agree to dialogue with Nasa, but since the troika skipped it, they cannot claim seats on the negotiations table because they forfeited them to ODM by their no show.

MILITANT

Do Mr Musyoka, Mr Wetang’ula and Mr Mudavadi see the kernel of the matter yet?

They created Nasa for purposes of winning the presidency last year.

They failed and their failed candidate has since entered a secret relationship with the winner.

Mr Odinga, hitherto the most militant and vociferous of the Nasa principals in demonising Mr Kenyatta as an illegitimate President unworthy of Nasa’s recognition, has had his comeuppance and cut a deal with the enemy, which excludes his more temperate colleagues.

PRETENCE

But to pretend to soften the blow for them, he maintains the charade that Nasa is still intact and has to prosecute its electoral reform agenda despite his deal with President Kenyatta. How?

Not when Mr Orengo and Mr Odinga himself are jealously protecting this liaison from the Nasa troika.

Not when ODM’s new friends in Jubilee too are protective of this union.

HOUSEHOLDS

Listen to Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa’s tongue-in-cheek advice for the troika: “When the heads of two neighbouring households have met and agreed on certain matters and made known to their families their positions, their children are not expected to contest the decisions.”

Mr Musyoka, Mr Wetang’ula and Mr Mudavadi will have noticed that Mr Orengo and Mr Wamalwa spoke after they had been quoted as asking to meet the President.

GO IT ALONE

Mr Orengo sounded as if he was the keeper of the President’s diary and Mr Wamalwa as a praetorian guard.

The Nasa troika have been dumped by their tall ODM sibling who can now cheekily and mischievously resent having to “kneel to make his short brothers happy”.

And, did not Mr Odinga warn at ODM’s National Governing Council in February that his party was ready to go it alone?

DICTATORSHIP

He was already talking to the President alone.

A fortnight later, he hit the troika for six with the handshake at OP.

Now the danger is not that the legislative dictatorship I warned about last year is complete.

It is that there is no knowing what legal or constitutional changes the President and Mr Odinga would put before a rubberstamp Parliament for such a Legislature serves as an extension of the Executive, thereby concentrating power at the centre.

OUTNUMBERED

Can Mr Musyoka, Mr Wetang’ula and Mr Mudavadi wake up and smell the coffee?

They must choose to either build and lead a vibrant but outnumbered minority or splinter and leave the Jubilee and ODM juggernaut politically unchallenged and legislatively unchecked.

But who tells Mr Odinga he has made a bed of roses?

HUGE OFFICE

There is a hilarious clip on social media in which Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen says Jubilee should give Mr Odinga a huge office and assign him duties that will keep him away in Addis Ababa, New York and Geneva.

That means keep him away from the 2022 campaign trail. Betrayal? That’s the oven for politics.

Meantime, the carnage the March 9 deal has wreaked on the politics is colossal but Mr Odinga’s reward remains awaited.

Opanga is a commentator with a bias for politics