Related to this is the problem of his running mate Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi who won the western Kenya Luhya vote for the ODM and became the party’s second-in-command...
An impression that Musalia Mudavadi’s influence might be waning seemed to be confirmed when the ODM lost a crucial by-election to an ally of Wamalwa in April...
Kibaki is Kikuyu (Central Province) Odinga is Luo (Nyanza Province West Kenya) Vice-President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka is Kamba (ethnic cousins of the Kikuyu Eastern Province) Uhuru Kenyatta is Kikuyu (Central) and Deputy Prime Minister and Local Government Minister Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi is Luhya (Western)...
The steady rise of the ODM's other deputy leader the understated Minister of Local Government Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi further complicates the leadership struggles as the party prepares itself for the next election...
Alongside these potential presidential candidates and alliances of candidates there are tentative moves by Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula and Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi...
Vol 49 No 25 |
- KENYA
- ANALYSIS
Significantly Odinga and his lieutenants William Samoei Ruto and Musalia Mudavadi differed publicly on how to tackle the rise in maize flour prices...
Jirongo a long-time businessman and former ally of ex-President Daniel Toroitich arap Moi is considered a threat in Western Kenya to the ODM's deputy leader Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi Moi's last Vice-President who was brought into the ODM to deliver the vote of the Luhya in western Kenya...
Vol 49 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
It was crafted by Kimunya and Kibaki but reflected consultation with ODM Local Government Minister Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi a one-time Finance Minister and Odinga...
Odinga had accepted Kibaki’s proposal whereby while giving the key Local Government post to the new Deputy Prime Minister ODM’s Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi he won a whole set of ministries mostly hived off larger existing ministries...
From the ODM Henry Kosgey Dalmas Otieno Sally Kosgei Kipkalya Kones William Ruto and Musalia Mudavadi found their way into the cabinet...
Odinga's negotiators led by Musalia Mudavadi insisted the power-sharing arrangements be part of a constitutional amendment to give the ODM legal safeguards...
The Pentagon brings together all those who competed for that nomination: former Vice-President Musalia Mudavadi also Odinga's chosen running mate; former National Heritage Minister Najib Balala; former Regional Cooperation Assistant Minister Joseph Nyaga; and former Kenya African National Union Secretary General William Ruto...