Kanu is already on a quiet campaign amid the Covid-19 pandemic to revitalize its grassroots support as top officials remain upbeat on pre 2022 political pacts with the likes of ODM and Jubilee parties.How Gideon Moi is planning to popularize and revive KANU

The party’s secretary general Nick Salat said the party is identifying key regional pillars that will strengthen to presence across the country that is grappling with coronavirus pandemic.

“coronavirus pandemic cannot stop an agenda whose time has come, political leaders are actively involved in alliance building talks ahead of the 2022 General Election despite the coronavirus setback, conversations are ongoing through telephones among people with mutual interests,” Salat said.

Mr Salat is a key confidant of the Kanu Chairman Gideon Moi and there have been talks of a possible pre-2022 alliance with the opposition chief Raila Odinga and the Kieleweke faction of  Jubilee Party. Kieleweke is allied to President Uhuru Kenyatta.

ODM leader Raila Odinga and Kanu Chairman Gideon in a past meeting. The to could pair for the top seat in 2022. [p/courtesy]
But analysts argue that such alliance could face a strong challenge at the ballot if Deputy President William Ruto teams up with Musalia Mudavadi (ANC) anD Kalonzo Musyoka of Wiper Democratic Movement.

In Salat’s thinking and analyses, the ground has been covered by the proponents of the Raila, Uhuru and Gideon, therefore the talks about alliance should be a matter of when and not if.

Salat also said that though the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted normalcy including physical meetings, political leaders still engaging in telephone and virtual conversations to plot strategies ahead of 2022.

The Building Bridges Initiative had emerged as the strategic platform to market the union but the coronavirus pandemic has killed it and erased it off the people’s memories after their rallies were snuffed by the government’s ban on public gatherings as an effort to curb the further spread of the coronavirus.

Political stalwarts are in communication to pursue the agenda they had initiated through BBI campaigns.

“What was being discussed in BBI rallies is being addressed by the people who embraced BBI and are looking at levelling the playground,” Salat added.

The former Bomet lawmaker said Kanu has already kicked off a process that aims to bring on board influential political heavyweights to boost its foothold at the grassroots as the party is said to have began tracing loyalists to former President Daniel Moi.

The quite campaigns come at the time when Kanu supporters from President Kenyatta’s Mt Kenya region picked a caucus to champion the party’s grassroots revitalization campaigns in the area.Uhuru-and-Raila-work-on-2022-election-line-up

The caucus has representation from all the nine counties in the vote-rich region where the Deputy President William Ruto is also enjoying a sizeable support in.

The Independence party will name more caucuses across the country in the coming months amid reports it has been given millions by an NGO to bankroll the revitalisation programmes.