On the night of 11 December while President Mwai Kibaki was preparing to celebrate 40 years of Kenya's Independence his Minister for Public Works Raila Amolo Odinga was holding a star-studded party at the United Kenya Club in central Nairobi...
Mbai's killing further undermines the shaky coalition between Kibaki's political forces and those of Luo leader and Public Works Minister Raila Odinga (AC Vol 44 No 11)...
Raila Odinga is trying to rally members of the ruling coalition disgruntled with the Mount Kenya mafia...
Under the plan the premiership together with the executive powers he demands would be offered to Raila Odinga...
The main rivalry in the National Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC) pits a sub-group led by the shadowy 'Mount Kenya Mafia' (comprising some Kikuyu Meru Embu and Kamba from all parties) against a 'Western Alliance' that backs Raila Odinga and is based on Luo and Luhya parliamentarians plus some members of ex-President Daniel arap Moi's ousted Kenya African National Union (KANU)...
Ngilu; the Liberal Democratic Party is led by Raila Odinga Joseph Kamotho and Arap Moi's old Vice-President George Saitoti...
With his recent return to health the ruling coalition between his National Alliance for Kenya (NAK) and Raila Odinga's Liberal Democratic Party is in the sick bay...
The absence of the President and his deputy cast the spotlight on the second-tier leadership the political management of Public Works Minister Raila Odinga and economic management of Finance Minister David Mwiraria as two issues are set to dominate the government's first year: the promise of a new constitution within six months and the re-establishment of good financial relations with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund...
Their concerns are all the greater when former opposition firebrand-turned-Kenya African National Union Minister and now NARC Minister Raila Odinga is targeting the prime ministerial job...
For Kibaki Wamalwa is an important foil to Public Works Minister Raila Odinga widely seen as the most ambitious man in the government...
At a huge rally in Nairobi's Uhuru Park scheduled to coincide with the KANU Kasarani show an estimated 50 000 people cheered the fresh KANU defectors to the opposition Saitoti Kamotho Energy Minister Raila Amolo Odinga ex-cabinet ministers Kalonzo Musyoka William Ntimana and Awiti Adhu all of them KANU Rainbow dissidents...
On 21 October at the Nairobi Hilton Hotel a former Moi loyalist Moody Awori of NARC announced the lineup for the top jobs under a Kibaki presidency Raila Odinga as the aspiring prime minister; Kijana Wamalwa for first vice-president; Musyoka for second vice-president; Kipruto Kirwa and Charity Ngilu for deputy prime ministers...
KANU's problems are more serious since Rainbow leaders Saitoti Energy Minister Raila Odinga and Tourism Minister Kalonzo Musyoka attended a rally last week beside the formal opposition National Alliance of Kenya (NAK) led by Mwai Kibaki Michael Kijana Wamalwa and Charity Ngilu and the People's Alliance under Simeon Nyachae...
Surrounding KANU's dreary headquarters building in central Nairobi were crowds of chanting supporters some shouting allegiance to Moi's chosen successor Uhuru Kenyatta some backing the Rainbow Alliance the KANU dissidents led by George Saitoti and Raila Odinga...
Saitoti tours Kenya with Raila Odinga a former political prisoner once accused of plotting a coup to extol party democracy and accountability...