Raila Amolo Odinga

Both men have been major backers of former opposition leader Raila Odinga and his Orange Democratic Movement...

A close ally who was dismissed as Devolution Secretary following her own graft scandal involving the disappearance of 791 million Kenya shillings ($800 000) from the National Youth Service in 2016 Waiguru was parachuted into the Jubilee nomination for the governorship in the central province the following year and has been one of the most enthusiastic cheerleaders for the Building Bridges Initiative led by Kenyatta and erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga...

One likely casualty will be the constitutional changes advocated by the new alliance between President Uhuru Kenyatta and erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga (AC Vol 60 No 24 Building shaky bridges)...

The majority of the parliamentary party is already loyal to Ruto the product of assiduous organising in the months leading up to the 2017 general election and after the famous 'handshake' between Kenyatta and erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...

He is also close to Kenya's Raila Odinga and Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo...

Kenya began 2020 with erratic and intractable factional politics as the top two candidates for the next presidential election – William Ruto and Raila Odinga – counter each other's attempts to cobble together alliances from their bases in their respective ethnic homelands...

Relations with Kenya improved following the 'handshake' between President Uhuru Kenyatta and President Magufuli's close friend Raila Odinga (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal & Vol 60 No 19 Bridge of sighs)...

' Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga the African Union's first High Representative for Infrastructure Development will also play a role...

The much-hyped Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report commissioned by President Uhuru Kenyatta and his erstwhile rival opposition leader Raila Odinga in March 2018 was launched on 27 November at Nairobi's Bomas Centre...

In a long off-the-cuff speech in Kikuyu Kenyatta sought to mollify his ethnic constituency about the goals of his new-found alliance with Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga the proposed constitutional changes by the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) economic conditions in the Mount Kenya region and his lukewarm relations with his deputy William Ruto (AC Vol 60 No 19 Bridge of sighs)...