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With his estranged Deputy President William Ruto conspicuously absent – it is as yet unclear whether or not he was invited – President Uhuru Kenyatta followed by erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga and other political leaders took the pulpit to urge Kenyans and politicians to maintain peace in pointed references to Ruto...
Meanwhile the Deputy President was busy campaigning at the Coast one of the regions loyal to Raila Odinga which Ruto believes he can swing ahead of the 2022 elections (AC Vol 61 No 20 Raila's path to power)...
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The next pitched battle between Deputy President William Ruto and the 'handshake' coalition of President Uhuru Kenyatta and erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga is centred over whether and when a by-election to replace impeached Nairobi governor Mike Sonko should be held...
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Extremely popular in Nairobi's slums – where half the city's population lives and where he hands out cash freely – Sonko seemed likely to support Ruto's candidate for the city's governorship if only to get even with Kenyatta and his ally Raila Odinga who lined up legislators at the Nairobi County Assembly and Kenya's Senate to remove him from office...
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It would count as a major win for supporters of the rapprochement between President Uhuru Kenyatta and former opposition leader Raila Odinga...
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There will be a slow rise in GDP growth but this will not mask the reality of an economy in trouble more corruption scandals rising poverty and ethnic political bickering under the unlikely coalition of President Uhuru Kenyatta and nominal opposition leader Raila Odinga (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...
Three years after President Uhuru Kenyatta won re-election in polls boycotted by opposition leader Raila Odinga the two erstwhile rivals sat on a red-carpeted podium at the Bomas of Kenya venue to launch the long-awaited Building Bridges Initiative report on constitutional reforms...
Why Odinga will run in 2022 The long delay in completing the Building Bridges Initiative report had much to do with Raila Odinga and his allies executing a 180-degree about-turn...
After four unsuccessful election attempts Raila Odinga's path to the presidency now rests on his improbable alliance with President Uhuru Kenyatta...
Like most Kalenjin the two politicians resent of the President's treatment of his Deputy William Ruto (a Kalenjin) now practically excluded from all aspects of government by a squad of the President's closest advisers led by Jubilee Party deputy chairman David Murathe in alliance with Raila Odinga's key men in the Orange Democratic Movement...
The Building Bridges Initiative – the political deal concocted between opposition leader Raila Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta – is in trouble again...
Their frustration with the government's economic mismanagement the President's embrace of Raila Odinga (having earlier demonised him) and the Kenyatta family's monopolistic business tactics had sent the traders and farmers into William Ruto's camp...
Having fallen out with Nasa leader Raila Odinga during the fluid aftermath of the January 2018 faux swearing-in which he failed to attend and despite some flirtations unable to reconcile himself either to the factions of Kenyatta or Deputy President William Ruto in the ruling party Mudavadi has found himself in retreat from national politics and therefore increasingly locked inside Western Kenya's fractious leadership contests...