It has widened the political rift  but not yet led to a rupture  between Ruto's Kalenjin following in the Rift Valley and their erstwhile Kikuyu allies  some of whose leaders prefer a new alliance with one-time opposition leader Raila Odinga and his Orange Democratic Movement...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     It remains unclear whether CA was responsible for conventional polling and social media campaigning  or the darker arts of online misinformation designed to smear Kenyatta's opponent Raila Odinga  which were used to such dangerous effect in 2017...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Speculators and wheeler-dealers had a field day as internal controls  where they existed  failed or were made to fail spectacularly ' wrote the PAC chair  Opiyo Wandayi  an MP for Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    While the leaders of Egypt  Ethiopia  Djibouti and Mozambique brought their official staff to China's recent Belt and Road Forum last week  Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta also brought the nominal leader of the opposition  Raila Odinga and his staff...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Former leaders of the opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa) Raila Odinga  Kalonzo Musyoka  Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetang'ula led government teams around the country to promote the card...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Even his landmark reconciliation with Raila Odinga  the unprecedented open friendship between the long-rival Odinga and Kenyatta families  and the political calm this has brought to the country has brought Uhuru no respite...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
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	     Yet another sign: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta  the only head of state to attend  was present along with his own newly-reconciled enemy  Raila Odinga...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    Kenya's political landscape in 2019 will be dominated by two-way competition between Deputy President William Ruto of the ruling Jubilee Party and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)  as each man positions himself for the presidential election of 2022...
	 
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	     There is satisfaction at the internal peace brought by the burial of the hatchet with opposition leader Raila Odinga in March  but disappointment in the gap between lofty pronouncements and action on the ground  especially over corruption...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    On Tuesday 18 September  President Uhuru Kenyatta's governing Jubilee party and the opposition (at least in name) National Super Alliance (Nasa)  led by Raila Odinga  held separate emergency parliamentary group meetings with one common aim: to marshal their MPs to support a revised budget for the current financial year (July 2018 to June 2019)...
 He led with 30%  against 14% for Raila Amolo Odinga  followed by Ali Hassan Joho  Governor of Mombasa  Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka and others...