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Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi

Date of Birth: 21 September 1960
Place of Birth: Sabatia, Vihiga District, Kenya


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PROFILE: Djibouti’s quiet man

For Youssouf who held lengthy meetings with Kenyan President William Ruto and Foreign Affairs Minister Musalia Mudavadi in August and October to discuss his candidacy in Nairobi having the contacts could trump name recognition...


The deputy takes the fall

Gachagua has been steadily marginalised over the past 18 months with the portfolio of Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi expanding to include the foreign ministry (AC Vol 65 No 6 It's the politics that counts)...


Ruto and Raila combine to take African Union leadership

Since then Ruto and his Prime Cabinet Secretary and Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi have been using diplomatic visits to tout Odinga's candidacy and State House officials claim to already have 25 votes including the eight-member East African Community...


Ruto struggles to regain control

After dismissing his government with the exception of Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi who also serves as Foreign Minister and Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua whose position is protected by the constitution Ruto announced that a week of talks would start on 15 July aimed at forming a ‘broad-based' unity government...


One party in a state

His aggressive attempts to force Luhya leaders Musalia Mudavadi whose Amani National Congress party Malala defected from and Moses Wetangula to merge their parties into the UDA – comparing himself to John the Baptist in the process – has been received poorly...


Ruto's UDA in chaos

The UDA could become close to a one-party state if Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetangula the two Luhya leaders whose switch to the Ruto camp was decisive in the President's election agree to fold their Amani National Congress and Ford-Kenya parties into the UDA (AC Vol 64 No 6 The one-party state bounces back)...


A one-man diplomatic mission

As he does so Ruto has centralised foreign policy and diplomacy in the hands of State House and Musalia Mudavadi his Prime Cabinet Secretary who had the foreign ministry added to his portfolio last October (AC Vol 64 No 21 Ruto's reshuffle rewards the technocrats)...


It's the politics that counts

As it stands Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi is most likely to have his de facto prime minister job made formal...

Rumours that he would be dropped from the 2027 ticket began within months of him taking office in 2022 and intensified last October when Ruto added the Foreign Ministry to Musalia Mudavadi's Prime Cabinet Secretary Portfolio...


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