Raila Amolo Odinga

President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee Alliance will again fight Raila Amolo Odinga's Coalition for Reform and Democracy (Cord)...

Such economic jitters combined with many job losses in the tourism and transport businesses have prompted Raila Amolo Odinga's CORD to go on the political offensive after months of confusion and inaction (AC Vol 56 No 17 The opposition fall out)...

These are Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM); Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka of the Wiper Democratic Movement-Kenya (WDM-K); Moses Simiyu Wetangula of the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-Kenya (Ford-K); and Martha Wangari Karua of the National Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC)...

An opinion poll which followed his March speech and came during the Islamist militant attack on students at Garissa University College which began on 2 April and over which his government has been strongly criticised still had him at 49% 20 percentage points clear of his nearest rival Raila Odinga head of the opposition Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (AC Vol 56 No 8 Garissa security shambles)...

In late 2007 Kenyatta led the Kenya African National Union and the parliamentary opposition but he supported the then President Mwai Kibaki against challenger Raila Amolo Odinga in the December general elections...

CORD and its leader former Prime Minister Raila Odinga could gain considerable Kalenjin support after a split between Jubilee's two wings...

The Coalition for Reform and Democracy leader Raila Odinga claimed on 18 November that the Jubilee Coalition in conjunction with IEBC officials had arranged for 'extra ballot papers' printed by S&O to be smuggled into Kenya and used in 'Jubilee areas' to tip the vote in the Alliance's favour in March 2013...

Obasanjo has long been an influential power-broker in Africa; Ichikowitz the founder of Paramount Group has a network of business and political contacts including former President Joyce Banda of Malawi and Raila Odinga the opposition leader in Kenya (AC Vol 55 No 3 Banda and the jets)...

Curiously opposition leader Raila Amolo Odinga and CORD associates – Kibaki's former Vice-President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka and former Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula – are shoring upKenyatta's political fortunes...

Cynics say it should really be called 'Okoa Raila Odinga'...

Foreign observer teams including the joint mission from the United States' Carter Center and the South African-based Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa which was led by Kenyan former Prime Minster Raila Odinga have issued a positive but nuanced verdict in advance of final results...