The combined power of Ford-Kenya and the LDP could attract smaller groups in Narc as well as KANU (headed for the moment by Uhuru Kenyatta now energetically socialising again) and Ford-People (led by Nyachae)...
Odinga's LDP consists of KANU parliamentarians who rebelled when Moi picked Uhuru Kenyatta as their standard-bearer in the December 2002 presidential poll...
George Muhoho a businessman faithful to Kibaki is brother of Mama Ngina Kenyatta Uhuru Kenyatta's mother; he was the Democratic Party's Publicity Secretary...
Some financial muscle may be returning to the fold in the form of Kenya African National Union MP Njenga Karume former backer of Kibaki's Democratic Party who abandoned his colleagues to support KANU's presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta a fellow Kiambu Kikuyu before the elections...
Both groups have held secret night-time meetings to decide on strategy with Kibaki and the leader of the opposition KANU's Uhuru Kenyatta (the man Moi had hoped would replace him) staying clear...
Museveni wants to avoid the mistake of Kenya's ex-President Daniel Toroitich arap Moi who imposed his own unsuccessful candidate Uhuru Kenyatta on the ruling party...
When Moi anointed Uhuru Kenyatta as KANU's presidential candidate Odinga stormed out taking an improbable gang of KANU stalwarts with him such as George Saitoti Joseph Kamotho Kalonzo Musyoka and Fred Gumo...
Muhoho has contacts across the political spectrum and is Uhuru Kenyatta's uncle...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
Again Odinga pressured the ECK to declare that NARC had won amid more rumours that KANU barons were persuading Moi's candidate Uhuru Kenyatta to reject the results and question NARC's legal constitution...
KANU's flagbearer Uhuru Kenyatta is expected to win 35-40 per cent and former Finance Minister-turned-oppositionist Simeon Nyachae may well come third with 7-15 per cent...