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Martha Wangari Karua

Date of Birth: 22 September 1957
Place of Birth: Kirinyaga District, Central Province


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Raila names his price

Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka and Narc-Kenya leader Martha Karua both opposed joining the Ruto government while ODM itself is split...


Ruto struggles to regain control

Martha Karua Odinga's running mate in August 2022 described Ruto's offer as a ‘trap' adding that ‘dialogue can only be meaningful if the players have good faith'...


Veterans seek a last hurrah in Addis

That remark was interpreted as ruling out Odinga's running mate in 2022 Martha Karua whose National Alliance Rainbow Coalition of Kenya (NARC-Kenya) party does not have any elected MPs...


Cross-party talks open, carrots provided

That leaves Musyoka and Martha Karua Odinga's running mate last August as the likely main opposition contenders to compete against Ruto in 2027...


The one-party state bounces back

Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka and Odinga's presidential running mate Martha Karua opposition county governors and politicians in Nyanza Kisii and the Coast report heavy pressure to bolster relations with State House if they want to secure cash for development projects...


Ruto takes his revenge

Neither did it seem Odinga even with his running mate Martha Karua was able to win over the region in sufficient numbers...


How the hustlers toppled the dynasties

Odinga had hoped to take a sizable chunk of votes in Kikuyu-dominated central Kenya being backed by Kenyatta the Mount Kenya business and political elites and his running mate Martha Karua who performed strongly on the campaign trail...


Taking the fifth

Odinga backed by incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta and with key allies Kalonzo Musyoka and deputy presidential nominee Martha Karua's Azimio La Umoja alliance has the opinion poll lead and the establishment voice to support it...

The voting preferences of women will be more significant but perhaps counter-intuitively the choice of Karua as the first female Deputy Presidential candidate by Azimio in May has not resulted in a nationwide switch by woman voters to Raila/Karua as the majority remain pro-Ruto by a significant margin according to the local TIFA opinion polls (Dispatches 16/5/22 Martha Karua and Rigathi Gachagua make the cut as running mates)...

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When the political descends to the personal

Much of the momentum behind the Odinga campaign has been coming from the aggressive performance of his running mate Martha Karua who has won over some of Ruto's support base in central Kenya...

The fierce arguments between Karua and Ruto's running mate Rigathi Gachagua saw both candidates try to establish their potential for leadership (AC Dispatches 15/5/22 Martha Karua and Rigathi Gachagua make the cut as running mates)...


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