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News that Ruto's Kenya Kwanza coalition agreement would create a position of Prime Cabinet Secretary for its principal Musalia Mudavadi should Ruto win the 9 August elections has prompted amusement and synthetic anger from Odinga's camp (AC Dispatches 24/1/22 Musalia Mudavadi springs January surprise as he backs Deputy President Ruto)...
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For Ruto the logical pick is ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi a Luhya who hails from the deeply divided western region...
The Deputy President was not hosted at the White House but that did not stop his communications and media team hinting again on Twitter that Ruto and his ally and likely running mate Amani National Congress leader Musalia Mudavadi led a delegation to the White House for a closed-door meeting where a strategic partnership between the US and Kenya was discussed...
Musalia Mudavadi leader of the Amani National Congress leader and key Ruto ally is accompanying the Deputy President...
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Aides to the Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi had promised an 'earthquake' ahead of the rally to launch his presidential campaign at Nairobi's Bomas of Kenya auditorium on 23 January...
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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...
The bill also seeks a six-month prior-to-elections deadline for smaller parties such as those of Amani National Congress leader Musalia Mudavadi and Wiper's Kalonzo Musyoka to declare officially and irrevocably whose presidential ticket they will support...
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At his latest sports-style political rally in Kakamega on 31 December Odinga locked in the endorsement of the Luhya community's political leaders with one major exception Amani National Congress leader and potential kingmaker Musalia Mudavadi...
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Amani National Congress leader Musalia Mudavadi sent apologies for his absence – his step-mother's body was arriving for burial from the United States on the day – while the Wiper party's Kalonzo Musyoka was conveniently in South Sudan...
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But the other key politicians that Odinga needs to make his national alliance work – a former deputy president and leader of the Amani National Congress Musalia Mudavadi as well another former deputy president and leader of the Wiper Party Kalonzo Musyoka – sent regrets for their absence at the rally...
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