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...
This recording made on 20 May 2004 has been played to the Chairman of Kenya's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Uhuru Kenyatta who is also leader of the main opposition party the Kenya African National Union...
Opposition kingpins Raila Odinga William Ruto Uhuru Kenyatta and Kalonzo Musyoka - nominally united under the banner of the Orange Democratic Movement - are demanding the immediate recall of parliament and a vote of no confidence in the government...
Vol 47 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
KANU's Uhuru Kenyatta is determined to run again...
That left party Chairman Uhuru Kenyatta a Kikuyu like Kibaki powerless to mend bridges...
Kenya loyalists concede that Kibaki needs allies; they would prefer the formerly ruling Kenya African National Union led by Uhuru Kenyatta (a Kikuyu) to the Liberal Democratic Party under the detested Odinga (a Luo)...
He and his rebel LDP faction teamed up with KANU's Chairperson and Secretary General Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto to form the Orange movement which campaigned across the country with colourful road shows that drew huge crowds...