NASA Leaders Exchange Blame Over Leaking of Information

New revelations now indicate that tension is brewing in the National Super Alliance (NASA) over the leaking of crucial information on the ongoing negotiations to pick the presidential candidate.

Sources close to the NASA co-principals on Tuesday intimated to the Nation that all was not well and sections of leaders in the alliance were heavily blaming one another. 

“Leaking of information is very dangerous because it is creating a particular perception in the minds of our supporters, a fact that is very dangerous,” said a source close to the principals.

"Some people are leaking information on the working documents and they don’t realise what that is doing to the principals.”

According to the source, the matter will be raised at the principals meeting to ensure that leaders who issue statements on the proceedings are stopped.

In the recent past, various sets of information on the progress of the talks to pick the NASA flagbearer have been disclosed by the coalition insiders. 

On Tuesday, The Standard reported sources within NASA having revealed that the Alliance technical Committee held a meeting where they agreed on two ways of choosing their candidate – either the four co-principals agree among themselves or an electoral college be formed to name the flag bearer.

The electoral college would be constituted by a select team of members from the four-member parties that form the Alliance; ODM Party, Wiper Movement, Amani National Congress and Ford-Kenya.

Earlier on, NASA insiders had disclosed that the technical committee had proposed that the candidate be picked through nominations with the alternative being handing the ticket to Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka as flagbearer and running mate respectively. 

Meanwhile, the anticipated meeting between the four NASA-coprincipals that was to take place yesterday flopped due to the absence of Kalonzo Musyoka and Moses Wetang’ula.

Musyoka is understood to have gone on a trip to Dubai while Wetangula was attending the ongoing Legislative Summit on devolution in Mombasa.