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Gideon Moi

Date of Birth: 1964


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The one-party state bounces back

A more accurate model would be the Kenya African National Union (KANU) which underpinned Daniel arap Moi's autocratic government and is now led by his son Gideon Moi (AC Vol 64 No 1 The return of one-man rule)...


Pricing Ruto's promises

However Ruto will have been cheered by the result in Rongai constituency in Nakuru also in the Rift Valley where UDA's Paul Chebor comfortably defeated Raymond Moi son of former President Daniel arap Moi three weeks after his younger brother Gideon Moi lost his Baringo senate seat to William Cheptumo...


How the hustlers toppled the dynasties

Deputy President Ruto's campaign on which some insiders say he spent $1bn in direct costs and 'IOUs' scored its greatest success by framing the election as a fight between his team of 'hustler' outsiders against the establishment dynasties of Odinga Kenyatta and Gideon Moi whose fathers dominated Kenyan politics after independence...

Gideon Moi son of former President Daniel arap Moi lost his Baringo senate seat to the UDA's William Cheptumo by over 70 000 votes...


New coalitions, old faces chase counties

The complex pre-election power-sharing deal between the parties in Odinga's Azimio which brought together Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement Kenyatta's Jubilee Kalonzo Musyoka's Wiper party and the Kenya African National Union of Gideon Moi saw the ODM's Tim Wanyonyi abandon his plans to run in favour of Jubilee's candidate Equity Bank executive Polycarp Igathe who will take on Nairobi senator and UDA candidate Johnson Sakaja...


The politics of division

That puts pressure on the OKA which groups together the Amani National Congress led by Musalia Mudavadi; Kalonzo Musyoka's Wiper party; the Kenya African National Union of Gideon Moi; and Moses Wetangula's Ford Kenya...


Raila's shallow coalition

Gideon Moi chairman of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) – the ruling party from independence in 1963 to 2002 – was the only One Kenya Alliance principal in attendance...


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Raila Odinga launches fifth bid for the presidency

Leader of Orange Democratic Movement and veteran oppositionist Raila Odinga held his Azimio la Umoja rally to launch his presidential candidacy on 10 December at the 60 000-seat Kasarani Sports Centre in Nairobi backed by a phalanx of President Uhuru Kenyatta's cabinet secretaries and Gideon Moi son of late President Daniel arap Moi...

Gideon Moi's endorsement of Odinga is important due to his position a lead in the Rift Valley and a direct rival to William Ruto for Kalenjin votes...

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Deputy President Ruto steals a march on his rivals

After merging Jubilee and ODM Kenyatta had planned to bring the leaders of the smaller parties – Musalia Mudavadi Kalonzo Musyoka Gideon Moi and Moses Wetangula – into a wider coalition for an Odinga presidency that would stop the Ruto juggernaut (AC Vol 62 No 21 Raila beats Ruto as the oligarchs' favourite & Vol 62 No 23 Cash takes on the kingpins)...


Cash takes on the kingpins

All of them have their presidential ambitions and reasons to distrust Odinga: Ford Kenya's Moses Wetangula Amani National Congress's Musalia Mudavadi and the Wiper party's Kalonzo Musyoka joined by Kenya African National Union chairman Gideon Moi...

Having formed OKA in protest at being marginalised by the 'handshake' politics of Odinga and Kenyatta the four leaders in the minor league – Mudavadi Musyoka Gideon Moi and Wetangula – are keeping their powder dry...

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