Aden Duale, the Defence Cabinet Secretary, has revealed why he disagreed with Raila Odinga, the head of the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition Party.
Duale claimed on Citizen Show on Wednesday that Odinga betrayed him politically during the 2008 Grand Coalition administration. However, the former Garissa Township MP was his top campaigner in the Northern Kenya region.
CS Duale, who was elected on an ODM party ticket at the time, claims that the previous prime minister and late President Mwai Kibaki declined to appoint him to the Cabinet because they had chosen the late Mohamed Yusuf Haji as Defence Minister, who hailed from the same area as Duale.
He considers Odinga's decision to deny him the post a flagrant betrayal.
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He explained that he was a Baba supporter. Baba admitted him to the political school, and he mostly campaigned for Raila Odinga in Muslim communities adding that he was his chief campaigner in the North, both in terms of numbers and resources, and that is where the politics of deception began
the CS added that When the grand coalition cabinet was formed, Raila Odinga looked him in the eyes and said, Kibaki has appointed another candidate, Haji, to be the Minister of Defence, so they can't have two of them from the same county, the same district then.
The outspoken CS, a staunch admirer of President William Ruto, accused the former premier of sacking him as Assistant Agriculture Minister alongside Ruto.
"Raila sacked Ruto...On the same day, William Ruto and I were fired. It was close to three o'clock. "I was in my office, and the screens showed that the following ministers had been fired," he explained.
Duale was adamant that Odinga would continue betraying his people if a similar agreement was reached with the present leadership, citing the aftermath of the infamous Handshake between Odinga and retired President Uhuru Kenyatta.
