The Hidden Intrigues Behind Aisha Jumwa’s Meeting With Raila

Malindi Member of Parliament Aisha Jumwa on Tuesday was the talk of the day after she met ODM party leader Raila Odinga, a move that shocked many Kenyans.

Jumwa who is a rebel member of the ODM party is currently allied to deputy president Dr William Ruto. Her meeting with Raila at her Parliamentary Service Commission Office on Tuesday afternoon came after Raila’s ODM Parliamentary Group meeting at County Hall which Jumwa never attended.

In a tweet that was immediately pulled down, ODM said that the rebel MP was back to the party since it was her DNA and that she had vowed to support and campaign for ODM candidate in Kibra by-elections Bernard Imran Okoth.

But later on, Aisha Jumwa denied having dumped DP Ruto nor endorsing Imran for Kibra seat.

She said through her social media account that Raila had only made a surprise visit to her Parliamentary Service Commission Office and that she was not even aware of the ODM Parliamentary Group meeting at County Hall.

Well, was the Opposition leader’s meeting at Malindi MP’s office a coincidence or was it planned?

Reports by a local daily says that Loyal women MPs allied to Raila were not amused after he visited the office of the rebel Malindi MP yesterday. 

Aisha seemed to have been in communication with Raila. After the  ODM Parliamentary Group meeting, Raila went straight to Aisha’s swanky office.

Surprisingly, this happened despite Aisha’s boycott of the ODM PG.

The women MPs were grumbling in the corridors of Parliament, wondering how Aisha manages to capture the attention of top political bosses across the divide.

She’s DP William Ruto’s cheerleader at the Coast and shortly after meeting Raila, she met Ruto alongside other Jubilee legislators in a bid to support Jubilee candidate McDonald Mariga’s Kibra parliamentary race.

Then what was it that ODM said she had vowed to campaign for Imran?

“This evening I did join the Deputy President William Ruto and other legislators and meet up with Devine church elders and pastors at Mash Park Hotel Nairobi in a bid to support Mariga for Kibra Constituency,” reads Aisha Jumwa’s facebook post.