Equally Kajwang's motion may have been a last-ditch effort by his party leader Raila Odinga to derail Saitoti's succession...
Moi was slow to fill the post; the leading candidates whom he kept in suspense and who all believe they are still in the running were: Education Minister Kalonzo Musyoka (Kamba 11 per cent of the population); NDP leader Raila Odinga (Luo 14 per cent); Saitoti (Kikuyu 23 per cent and Maasai 4 per cent); ex-Finance Minister Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi (Luhya 15 per cent); Nyachae (Kisii 9 per cent); Lands Minister Katana Ngala (Coast 11 per cent)...
Among the Luo Raila Odinga’s position as supreme leader has been strengthened by the appointments of two other Luo - Abong’o as police chief and Lazarus Amayo as High Commissioner to India...
; Joab Omino (Luo/National Development Party) right hand man of Raila Odinga and Deputy Speaker of Parliament 41 mn...
• Though he emphatically denies he is Moi's son Mark arap Too (Lonrho Kenya Chairman and KANU MP) serves as a trusted Moi emissary to local and foreign trouble spots as well as developing amajor business empire; he brokered the alliance between Raila Odinga and Moi after the 1997 election and has kept it going financially...
But Moi's triumph was due to three opposition parties - Raila Odinga's National Development Party (22 seats) Michael Wamalwa Kijana's Ford-K (18) and George Moseti Anyona's Kenya Social Congress (one seat)...
Then as the horror unfolded compassion and civic duty took over producing some unexpected political events: • In a rare show of unity Moi drove to the bomb site on the day after the massacre with his opponent Democratic Party leader Mwai Kibaki the Social Democratic Party's Charity Ngilu and KANU allies Raila Odinga of National Development Party and Michael Wamalwa Kijana of the Forum for Democracy-Kenya...
KANU's parliamentary majority is slim but on 27 June Raila Odinga's 22-member National Development Party of Kenya authorised him to form a coalition government with Moi ‘for the good of Kenya'...
Moi touts the merits of ‘partnership' between his ruling KANU and three small opposition parties with ethnic bases in western Kenya: Raila Odinga's NDP (22 of the 222 members of Parliament) Michael Kijana Wamalwa's Ford- Kenya (18 seats) and George Moseti Anyona's Kenya Social Congress (one MP Anyona)...
Raila Odinga's wife Ida Odinga has long been Too's personal assistant at Lonrho...
The prospects of an opposition vice-president are negligible although Mark arap Too managed to persuade three opposition luminaries - Raila Odinga (Luo National Development Party) Michael Wamalwa Kijana (Bukusu Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-Kenya) and Charity K...
Support for the other presidential candidates reflected the narrowness of their ethnic bases: Raila Odinga for the National Development Party (NDP) among the Luo; Michael Wamalwa Kijana for the Forum for Democracy- Kenya Bukusu; Charity K...