Ababu Namwamba who headed the Ruto campaign's international relations wing was passed over in favour of Mutua in the Foreign Affairs docket but was allocated the Sports Youth affairs and Culture post that he held in Kibaki's government...
Chief of Staff David Chichir a former energy secretary in the first Kenyatta/Ruto administration is being touted as the public service minister while Ruto's foreign policy advisor Ababu Namwamba has been tipped to lead the foreign affairs ministry...
Hassan Omar Hassan from Mombasa and Ababu Namwamba from the Samia branch of the Luhya were among those predicted as the year began to join the cabinet...
In Busia the Labour Party (a well-funded party allied to Jubilee but which exists in name only) led by the former ODM Secretary General Ababu Namwamba will play the role of spoiler to the ODM which has strong roots among the Samia Marachi and Wanga subgroups of the Luhya living there...
In the meantime ODM's former Secretary General Ababu Namwamba from the Luhya community in Western Kenya has made good his threat to initiate 'a third force' in the form of the rejuvenated Labour Party of Kenya...
Its youthful Secretary General Ababu Namwamba MP for Budalangi and his ally Paul Otuoma have absented themselves from party activities and demonstrations for most of this year claiming they have suffered 'disrespect' from the Luo old-guard around Odinga which accuses Namwamba of 'being a Jubilee mole'...
Ignored in the lavish handing out of cabinet posts when the grand coalition was cobbled together a group of first-time ODM members of parliament led by Ababu Namwamba a 32-year-old lawyer joined with backbenchers from other parties to agitate for an official opposition...
The leaders of a grand opposition could be two lawyers who are now in Parliament Ababu Namwamba (who is not yet 40) from Western Kenya and the veteran Gitobu Imanyara a Kikuyu with activist credentials from the 1980s-90s whom Amnesty International once declared a 'Prisoner of Conscience'...