Amani National Congress (ANC) party leader Musalia Mudavadi has expressed regrets over the failure of Kenya to secure the chairmanship of the African Union Commission (AUC).He said it is disappointing that after so much energy and use of national resources in the pursuit of AUC Presidency, Kenya failed to clinch the position.
He said it is disappointing that after so much energy and used national resources in the pursuit of AUC Presidency, Kenya failed to clinch the position.
He claimed that Amb. Amina Mohamed loss was crestfallen to Kenyans and blamed jubilee government of its ineptitude and botched misadventure of the promoters of the candidate.
“Regional and international diplomacy isn’t your usual cup of domestic posturing. It requires seasoned, erudite planning and engineering to which it is apparent, the Jubilee regime wasn’t prepared for,” said Mudavadi.
He said Amb. Amina Mohamed had qualifications, experience and exposure to become the chair if jubilee government had trodden carefully on the matter.
He said it is a well-known traditional consensus within the AU Diplomacy that the AU Commission Chair is rotational between regions and among Anglophone and Francophone states.
He said fielding an Anglophone candidate to succeed an immediate Anglophone without sufficiently lobbying the evident Francophone beneficiaries was not diplomatically smart. He said that disadvantage alone should have forewarned Kenya against fielding a candidate.
Mudavadi said AUC must have also been forewarned that the candidature of Amina wasn’t in the best interests of the AU, but a misplaced lone ego trip by Kenya’s rulers to use the position for self-interest.
“It must have occurred to AU members to be cautious of Kenya’s seemingly descent isolationism especially as relates to international diplomacy,” said Mudavadi.
He added that Jubilee couldn’t convince peers that it can be entrusted with the responsibility of the AU chair without it convulsing it for narrow regime pursuits.