As he heads into the sunset President Daniel arap Moi has to face the fact that his handpicked successor Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (AC Vol 43 No 15) may lose the forthcoming election to Mwai Kibaki of the new National Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC AC Vol 43 No 18)...
KANU's problems are more serious since Rainbow leaders Saitoti Energy Minister Raila Odinga and Tourism Minister Kalonzo Musyoka attended a rally last week beside the formal opposition National Alliance of Kenya (NAK) led by Mwai Kibaki Michael Kijana Wamalwa and Charity Ngilu and the People's Alliance under Simeon Nyachae...
The Kikuyu multi-millionaire Njenga Karume has defected to Uhuru Kenyatta (Kikuyu) from the opposition Democratic Party (DP) which is led by his old friend another Kikuyu Mwai Kibaki (AC Vol 43 No 15)...
If Uhuru wins the KANU nomination the DP's Kikuyu leader Mwai Kibaki will be pushed to hand over the Alliance nomination to a non-Kikuyu and the Kikuyu vote dominant in Nairobi and Central Provinces will be split between KANU and the opposition...
The opposition's best hope would be if Mwai Kibaki's DP merged with Simeon Nyachae's Forum for Democracy-People the only other opposition party with a substantial following...
'The Big Three' Mwai Kibaki Michael Kijana Wamalwa (Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-Kenya leader) and Charity Ngilu (Kenya National Party) have had several breakfast discussions about selecting a common candidate and have formed a joint committee...
Vol 43 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
Then Kenyatta will be groomed to fight Mwai Kibaki (Democratic Party Nyeri Kikuyu) to become Kikuyu supremo...
The Gema peoples together make up about 27 per cent of the population produce most of the marketed farm produce believe they get a raw deal from Moi's KANU and often back Mwai Kibaki's mainly Kikuyu Democratic Party...
The main opposition parties Mwai Kibaki's Democratic Party Michael Kijana Wamalwa's Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-Kenya and Charity N'gilu's Social Democratic Party boycotted the debate insisting that an open constitutional reform process should include civic groups as well as political leaders...