In March John Githongo anti-corruption chief turned whistleblower on the Anglo-Leasing scandal during Mwai Kibaki's presidency and publisher of The Elephant in Nairobi remarked that 'Kenyans are going into an election believing in nothing standing for nothing … no big idea no galvanising issue...
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It follows Kenyatta's snubbing of Ruto at the memorial service for President Mwai Kibaki on 29 April (AC Vol 63 No 9 The political class salutes Mwai Kibaki the last of the independence generation)...
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The rival presidential candidates Deputy President William Ruto and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga have heaped praise on former President Emilio Mwai Kibaki who has died at 90...
The rival presidential candidates Deputy President William Ruto and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga have heaped praise on former President Emilio Mwai Kibaki who has died at 90...
Odinga said he and former President Mwai Kibaki had prepared tendered and awarded the first contract for the railway before leaving office with the price at $2...
Political analyst Martin Andati argues that Azimio is an attempt to replicate former President Mwai Kibaki's strategy when he joined the Party of National Unity (PNU) in 2007 in bringing in Ford Kenya National Rainbow Coalition-Kenya and other parties...
Chief among them is economic policy advisor David Ndii who previously worked for Mwai Kibaki and Odinga before turning against them (AC Vol 60 No 19 Bridge of sighs)...
That friendship was briefly broken in 2007-08 when Uhuru and Ruto campaigned for opposing Presidential candidates: Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga respectively...
His Central Kenya lieutenants however have been softening the ground for Odinga's return to a region to which he was last welcomed 20 years ago – when he led Mwai Kibaki's election campaign...
Muturi's bid was recently endorsed by the Democratic Party the once-formidable Mwai Kibaki-dominated outfit...
His relationship with the Mwai Kibaki government when it liberalised broadcast frequencies saw him rise to full-spectrum dominance...
Without a presidential endorsement for Odinga and there are suggestions that Kenyatta will follow the example of Mwai Kibaki decline to endorse a successor and stay out of the election fray there is little sign that Kikuyu votes will move to Odinga in significant numbers...
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Its advocates call it a return to the Grand Coalition Government in 2008 when Mwai Kibaki was President and Odinga Prime Minister...
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Political alliances have been shaken up again after the former trade minister in President Mwai Kibaki's government Mukhisa Kituyi resigned as Secretary General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development to run for the presidency in 2022 (AC Vol 48 No 7 No-party politics rule)...
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