By Jacob Ngetich | Saturday, Aug 20th 2016 at 09:56CORD leader Raila Odinga and his Amani National Congress counterpart Musalia Mudavadi at a past meeting. In separate interviews with CORD insiders, The Standard on Saturday has established that the game plan includes backing Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi as the Opposition presidential candidate, with Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka as his running mate. Proponents of this scheme believe a Mudavadi/Kalonzo ticket would deliver decisive victory to CORD in round one and deny Jubilee both the presidency and majority in Parliament. In May, CORD constituted a team to evaluate possible outcomes of the presidential race with various scenarios where each of the three principals is the presidential candidate. According to a member of the team, a Mudavadi candidacy would lock Western Kenya region for CORD and Kalonzo would bring on board the lower Eastern and significant pockets of Coast region.

Source: Standard Digital August 19, 2016 20:39 UTC