Sources say at one point, Gideon was to convince his colleagues in the One Kenya Alliance and specifically Kalonzo Musyoka to join Kenya Kwanza but Nick Salat and a section of top Kanu leadership opposed the idea. Acting under pressure and considering that Nick Salat, the party’s Secretary General had convinced the majority of the party’s top decision-making organs to join Azimio, Gideon Moi was left with no option but to join the majority
Following the suspension of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) Secretary General Nick Salat, The Weekly Vision today publishes fresh details behind the fallout between the two longtime political allies, Gideon Moi and Nick Salat. Sources with the former ruling party Kanu divulged that the two have been having political differences dating back to the run-up to the last general elections.
It is said that Gideon Moi had initially planned to have Kanu join Kenya Kwanza for him to secure his political seat but Nick Salat declined, insisting that Kanu was safe in Azimio and that Raila Odinga was a sure bet that he would win the presidency. The source added that Gideon Moi had been approached by a section of Kalenjin elders who undertook to broker a reconciliation deal between him and President William Ruto to save his political future in the Rift Valley.
Sources say at one point, Gideon was to convince his colleagues in the One Kenya Alliance and specifically Kalonzo Musyoka to join Kenya Kwanza but Nick Salat and a section of top Kanu leadership opposed the idea. Acting under pressure and considering that Nick Salat, the party’s Secretary General had convinced the majority of the party’s top decision-making organs to join Azimio, Gideon Moi was left with no option but to join the majority.
Those who watched the political events as they unfolded towards the last general elections will agree that Gideon Moi joined Azimio not because it was his wish to do so but because of the pressure and that the majority of the party delegates had voted against his will to work with William Ruto.
Soon after the elections were over, both Gideon Moi and Nick Salat engaged in behind the scene political attacks with Gideon blaming Salat for taking the party to the opposition. It was later discovered that following the declared vacancies at the East African Legislative Assembly, both Gideon and Salat showed interest, an issue that raised political temperatures in the party. In dismissing Gideon’s declaration that he was the Kanu choice for the EALA job, the fire-spitting Salat came out declaring that Kanu should reward him for his loyalty and for staying in the political cold for long. Gideon Moi is said to have been advised by a section of the party’s delegates to withdraw from the EALA job, but he gave conditions that as long as the Kanu candidate is not Nick Salat, he was OK with any other pick, sources say. The rivalry between the two took a dramatic turn with both leaders engaging in dirty political wars and when the final list eventually came out, it did not have Nick Salat’s name.
The party’s National Executive Council (NEC) then suspended Mr Salat from the party over alleged misconduct and violation of the party constitution. But Salat in a quick rejoinder declared the suspension “null and void.”
