Mudavadi pact was signed at Uhuru’s house

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UDF leader Musalia Mudavadi, Mr Uhuru Kenyatta of TNA and URP leader William Ruto after signing a coalition agreement at Laico Regency in Nairobi on December 04, 2012. Billy Mutai | Nation 

By PETER LEFTIE pmutibo@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted  Tuesday, January 1  2013 at  22:00

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• TNA would get 45 per cent of government slots while URP would get 35 and UDF 20

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Details of the secret agreement between Deputy Prime Ministers Uhuru Kenyatta and Musalia Mudavadi have come to light.

Under the agreement, a copy of which is in our possession, Mr Kenyatta committed himself to stepping down for Mr Mudavadi as the Jubilee Coalition’s presidential candidate.

The agreement was signed at Mr Kenyatta’s residence on State House road on December 4 in the presence of lawyers Desterion Oyatsi for The National Alliance (TNA) leader and Dan Ameyo for Mr Mudavadi.

United Republican Party (URP) leader William Ruto also signed the document.

The agreement further spelled out how the three partners in the alliance, TNA, Mr Mudavadi’s United Democratic Forum (UDF) and Mr Ruto’s United Republican Party (URP) would share positions if they formed the next government.

According to the document, TNA would get 45 per cent of the slots in the Jubilee Coalition government while URP would get 35 per cent with UDF taking the remaining 20 per cent.

TNA’s lion’s share of the slots was intended to compensate the party for surrendering the presidential slot to UDF.

The details of the agreement were to remain secret until after 14 days to enable Mr Kenyatta prepare his supporters for the announcement.

Mr Kenyatta has since conceded that there was such an agreement and that he presented it to his party’s delegates for approval but they rejected it.

The agreement is at the centre of the acrimony between Mr Mudavadi and Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto who have since elbowed UDF out.

UDF has in turn dragged TNA and URP to the Registrar of Political Parties, accusing the two of breaching the agreement by failing to involve it in the presidential nomination for the Jubilee Coalition.

The three parties appeared before the Registrar, Ms Lucy Ndungu on Monday but failed to resolve the dispute after a two hour meeting.

UDF’s Secretary General Dan Ameyo later told the media that the parties to the dispute had “ventilated on the outstanding issues raised” and would continue on Wednesday.

“We have looked at the outstanding issues and we have scheduled another meeting on January 2 at 2pm,” he said.

Sources in the meeting who did not want to go on record because they committed themselves not to disclose the deliberations said that UDF insisted that TNA and URP drop the name “Jubilee Coalition” since it was its brainchild.

UDF also wants its estranged partners to issue a public apology for “wrongfully’ elbowing it out of the alliance.

But TNA and URP have reportedly insisted that they had already patented the Jubilee name and could therefore not drop it.