Although Kenyatta won the 4 March presidential election by a narrow margin against Raila Odinga successive opinion polls in Kenya suggest that a sizeable majority of citizens support the trial at the ICC of those accused of orchestrating violence after the 2007 elections...
Vol 54 No 10 |
- KENYA
- BRITAIN
Because of this the Jubilee Alliance tried to discredit Maina Kiai a prominent rights activist alleging that he was plotting with Britain to rig Kenyatta’s rival candidate Raila Odinga into State House (AC Vol 54 No 6 The closest of shaves)...
Kenya’s Supreme Court took less than four weeks to hear a somewhat similar case brought by former Prime Minister Raila Odinga against the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as President...
Locally the big losers are the rival candidates Raila Odinga and Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka...
It was a warning shot from the usually emollient Charity Kaluki Ngilu when she read a statement in Nairobi on 6 March claiming that Britain’s envoy Christian Turner was plotting with civil society activist Maina Kiai to rig the election in Raila Odinga’s favour: ‘The Jubilee Alliance is deeply concerned about the shadowy suspicious and rather animated involvement of the British High Commissioner in Kenya’s election...
Early polls gave the leader of the Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) Prime Minister Raila Odinga a narrow lead but several factors have moved to Jubilee’s advantage...
On the national stage Kenyatta and Ruto have lost no opportunity to call the ICC process an infringement of Kenyan sovereignty orchestrated by Raila Odinga...
Neither the Jubilee Coalition’s Uhuru Kenyatta nor Prime Minister Raila Odinga of the Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) has been able to make inroads into the other’s electoral strongholds...
Although some think he can deliver the Luhya vote in Western Kenya on several occasions in the past he has damaged himself politically by picking the wrong horse notably during the walkout from the Kenya African National Union (KANU) which Raila Odinga led during the 2002 elections...
Seeing that endorsement by the ODM leader Prime Minister Raila Odinga was the key to winning the nomination Wanjiru and Kidero vied viciously behind the scenes for his favour...
The novelty of TV and expectations that sparks would fly between the frontrunners Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Kenyatta attracted an audience of over 44 million people...