Ole Sunkuli: I eat watermelon and Kalonzo is not what I eat
Wiper Party presidential running mate Andrew Ole Sunkuli has
defended his party flagbearer Kalonzo Musyoka’s critics who have repeatedly
labelled him a watermelon for his supposed political indecisiveness.
Speaking on Citizen TV’s NewsNight program on Tuesday, Ole
Sunkuli termed it an unfair analogy, saying the fruit is too good to have a
negative connotation.
“I think the term watermelon is so unfair, not so much for Kalonzo but for the fruit. Speaking of the watermelon, it is a very good fruit. I do not know at what point it became a parable of the bad,” he told the host Waihiga Mwaura.
"I eat watermelon and Kalonzo is not what I eat."
Sunkuli consequently stated that he will stick behind
whatever decision the Wiper boss will make, if any, in terms of rejoining
Azimio La Umoja One Kenya coalition party.
“If he (Kalonzo) decides to choose the country and work with
Odinga, I will do the same to support his decision but that is not where we are
at the moment. Right now we are in the race,” he said.
“I trust Kalonzo. He speaks from his heart, he means well
for the country, and he meant it when he said he was in the race to the State
House.”
Kalonzo, who is on a week-long tour of the United
Kingdomsince last Friday, has previously attributed the ‘watermelon’ label to
Azimio chief Raila Odinga and even stated that he is not offended by it because
it is a good fruit.
“It was Raila who gave me the watermelon tag but there is no
problem,” he said in a March interview, “He is my brother and it’s a beautiful
fruit by the way.”
While dismissing the tag as unfair, he argued that his
critics only bring up the ‘indecisiveness’ when he makes drastic political choices
which they are opposed to.
“When it doesn’t suit them, I become a watermelon. This
country wasn’t made to suit the aspirations of a few people, we all belong to
Kenya,” said Kalonzo.
Kalonzo is currently under pressure from Wiper leaders to
return to the Azimio coalition which he recently ditched after missing out on
the running mate slot which was handed to NARC Kenya leader Martha Karua.
The party’s leaders on Monday said they have resolved to
work with the Odinga-led coalition under 'structured dialogue.'
They, however, maintained that should the offer tabled before them by the coalition party turn out to be dismal, they are willing to support Kalonzo to be the fifth president of Kenya.
At the same time, there have been talk of attempts to woo
him back to the Azimio camp, spearheaded by President Uhuru Kenyatta and KANU
Chairman Gideon Moi.
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