Given how important these elections are for the two leading presidential candidates Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and given the fresh memories of administrative chaos and electoral malpractice in the December 2007 elections tensions will rise between now and March 2013...
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has had an awful year...
From further afield Gabon's Jean Ping (who chairs the AU Commission until his successor Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma takes over in October) are to be joined by Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Kenya's Premier Raila Odinga...
The most anticipated literary event in Nairobi in years – the launch of Miguna Miguna's tell-all about his five-year working relationship with Prime Minister Raila Odinga and their falling-out – did not disappoint...
Sacked and publicly humiliated by Moi during the sunset of his reign in 2002 he had walked out of the Kenya African National Union and joined Raila Odinga in the Liberal Democratic Party...
His removal to the less conspicuous Education Ministry was therefore not unexpected and for weeks there have been rumours that other parties were courting him including Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement...
A pragmatist to the very end Karume was said to have lately become a supporter of Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s quest for the presidency...
He has been seen as having the best chance against the favourite for the presidency Prime Minister Raila Odinga...
Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga a consummate politician and populist (and like his father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga champion of the Luo people) spoke of an end to tribalism...
Prime Minister Raila Odinga who has tried to strengthen his image as an even-handed statesman rather than a reckless populist will revert to populist mode in an attempt to reconnect with the masses...