After several months of stop-start talks National Assembly leader Kimani Ichung'wa and his Azimio la Umoja counterpart Kalonzo Musyoka finalised the terms of reference for the ten-member National Dialogue Committee (NDC) in early September...
But insiders say Ruto is prepared to create a formal position of Leader of the Opposition for Kalonzo Musyoka and to offer Odinga his backing to be Kenya's nominee for the presidency of the African Union Commission...
Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka has emerged as the most likely opposition presidential candidate in 2027 and continues to hold campaign functions at his SKM Command Centre in Nairobi...
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...
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Formed by the infamous 'handshake' between Kenyatta and Raila Odinga in 2018 Azimio brought together Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and the rump of the Jubilee party formed by Kenyatta and his successor William Ruto along with a group of smaller parties led by Kalonzo Musyoka's Wiper party (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...
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Odinga's real headache will be how he handles increasingly louder appeals to endorse the presidential ambitions for 2027 of his 2013 and 2017 running mate Kalonzo Musyoka...
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Azimio's Parliamentary Group meeting attended by Raila Odinga and Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka described the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee (JLAC) hearings against the four IEBC commissioners as a 'lynch mob a hired hit squad and an illegality with a predetermined position...
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The composition and future direction of the IEBC is set to be a key battle between Ruto and the opposition forces led by Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka with the latter demanding an overhaul of the institution...
This may appease voters in the Lower Eastern Ukambani region which stuck by Kalonzo Musyoka Wiper party leader and key ally of Raila Odinga in the August elections...
Since Odinga's return it is Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka who has taken the lead...
A report that Ruto would offer Kalonzo Musyoka the foreign ministry in exchange for dropping his backing for Odinga's Azimio La Umoja coalition was quickly scotched after the inauguration...