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Originally Posted by missed call
did he defect in 2001 when he joined kanu? remember his NDP was whole swallowed by the jogoo then.
forgetting that, if some members of two major parties in kenya can form a grand coalition, then members from the same parties can also form a grand opposition. lets avoid double standards. and as Ababu said, in the Annan agreement, there was nothing like grand opposition. that doesnt mean it cant be formed!
my q is, y is raila so afraid of an opposition which he has always championed? what is it that he knows and unknown to some members, some in govt who r proponents of the opposition?
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In 2001, he followed the law strictly which requires that if a party's MPs are to join another party, then that party must enter into a formal merger with the other failure to which the MPs of the former will lose their seats.
To break it down, the frustrated MPs have 3 legal options:
1. they can remain in their individual parties and provide internal opposition,
2. they can defect from their parties and join Jirongo's KADDU,
3. they can form a new formal opposition as they want to,
Note that in the two final options they will certainly lose their seats.
Raila is simply advising the MPs on the folly of their plans. What, pray tell me, will the formal opposition achieve for the MPs that they cannot achieve while in their individual parties. If you can decode that, then you will understand the answer to your question.