Raila Amolo Odinga

Attempts by opposition leader Raila Amolo Odinga to put himself back on the political map are failing to spark the public imagination...

Leading the charge are Raila Amolo Odinga and his Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD)...

Both securocrats and the judiciary angrily deny claims that senior civil servants leaned on the Supreme Court last March to reject ex-Prime Minister Raila Odinga's petition against the election results...

Ex-Premier Raila Odinga's ill health and failure to recognise a successor in his Coalition for Reform and Democracy will hamper CORD leaders in forming an effective voting bloc in the legislature...

A predominantly civilian National Police Service Commission was established but the failure of the ruling political rivals President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga to agree who would head it left the NPSC rudderless until just before this year's elections...

The row has also brought Raila Odinga back into the limelight...

The losing parties – particularly supporters of Kenyatta's main rival candidate Raila Odinga – would say that this was the ‘smoking gun' that proved the election was rigged...

Although Kenyatta won the 4 March presidential election by a narrow margin against Raila Odinga successive opinion polls in Kenya suggest that a sizeable majority of citizens support the trial at the ICC of those accused of orchestrating violence after the 2007 elections...

Because of this the Jubilee Alliance tried to discredit Maina Kiai a prominent rights activist alleging that he was plotting with Britain to rig Kenyatta’s rival candidate Raila Odinga into State House (AC Vol 54 No 6 The closest of shaves)...

Kenya’s Supreme Court took less than four weeks to hear a somewhat similar case brought by former Prime Minister Raila Odinga against the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as President...