The ODM's most prominent representative in Kikuyu country Kibaki's home turf is his fellow Kikuyu Uhuru Kenyatta...
We hear that former President Daniel arap Moi is putting his KANU together as a third force which while it could not itself win could pick up disaffected politicians from either side to bargain for power-sharing with whichever coalition seems likely to win with Uhuru Kenyatta Mudavadi and Musyoka at the helm...
Both Moi and Uhuru Kenyatta wooed it before the 2002 elections...
Presidential hopefuls due to attend were: Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka (Kamba); Uhuru Kenyatta (Kikuyu); William Ruto (Kalenjin/Nandi); Najib Balala (Coast member of parliament for Mvita in Mombasa); Julia Ojiambo (Luhya/Samia); and Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi (ex-President Daniel arap Moi's last Vice-President)...
On 17 March the Odinga family organised and publicised the traditional betrothal of its son Fidel Castro Odinga to Veronica Wanjiru Ng'ang'a a distant member of a leading Kikuyu family the Kenyattas; Uhuru Kenyatta was prominent at the ceremony...
The evening we hear was taken up with discussions of a new alliance of Raila (as presidential candidate) and the southern Kikuyu led by Uhuru Kenyatta - which would outflank Kibaki in his Kikuyu bailiwick and lock out Kalonzo Musyoka...
The LDP then made its alliance of convenience with KANU and Uhuru Kenyatta...
Uhuru Kenyatta the leader of the parliamentary opposition has lost his ethnic base to Kibaki and says privately that he is willing to run in second place to Raila...
The ODM is an alliance of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP led by Odinga and Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka) the former ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU led by its 2002 flagbearer Uhuru Kenyatta) and the smaller Labour Party...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
The other main opposition figures are Raila Odinga (Luo 14%) Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (Kikuyu 5%) and William Ruto (Kalenjin 3%)...
The crowd in Nairobi's City Stadium whooped when the founding President's son Uhuru Kenyatta walked onto the dais and welcomed Joseph Nyagah the latest defector from President Kibaki's National Alliance Rainbow Coalition-Kenya (NARC-Kenya) party...
THE PRESIDENTIAL RUNNERS NAME PARTY SUPPORT BASE CHANCES Mwai Kibaki NARC-Kenya Central Province (Nyeri and environs national alliances through party network) Favourite helped by incumbency Kalonzo Musyoka ODM Ukambani Eastern Province Second favourite liked across Kenya but criticised as lightweight Raila Odinga ODM Luo Nyanza the most loyal but not biggest base Joint third favourite criticised for autocratic style Uhuru Kenyatta KANU Central Province and youth vote Joint third favourite came second in 2002 Musalia Mudavadi ODM Maragoli Western Province Strong compromise candidate William Ruto ODM Kalenjin Rift Valley Province Powerful vote-getter lacks national support Najib Balala ODM Coast Province and Muslim vote Popular but untried in senior jobs Julia Ojiambo ODM Samia Western Province and women Too junior in hierarchy Nicholas Biwott KANU Kalenjin Rift Valley Province Too unpopular to make a serious run ...
Former President Daniel arap Moi's endorsement of Nicholas Kipyator Biwott on 25 November as Chairman of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) instead of Uhuru Kenyatta was designed to scupper hopes for a broad-based opposition against President Mwai Kibaki's government...
NARC-Kenya grew from the ashes of Kibaki's defeat in the November 2005 referendum by the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) which brings together KANU under Uhuru Kenyatta and the LDP under Raila Odinga...
Uhuru Kenyatta and ex-President Daniel arap Moi campaigned for KANU's David Manyara who came in last; Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka set aside their differences to support the LDP's Michael Brawan who came a creditable second...
NARC-Kenya speakers recalled the government-sponsored ethnic killings of local Kikuyus during the Moi years; this made Uhuru Kenyatta (Kikuyu) look clueless alongside Moi...
Uhuru Kenyatta (Kikuyu) is KANU leader and runner-up to Kibaki in 2002...
Others are his close associates such as Defence Minister Njenga Karume as well as Kenyatta's widow the fabulously wealthy Mama Ngina mother of opposition leader Uhuru Kenyatta...