Raila Amolo Odinga

There has been a deafening silence from presidential contenders such as Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka...

The previous week Moi had pledged to back Kibaki against opposition leader Raila Odinga and the Orange Democratic Movement in December's elections (AC Vol 48 No 17)...

Last week Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka left the ODM after weeks of tension with Raila Amolo Odinga its dominant figure...

Above all he is unpredictable and indefatigable: that is how an old associate sums up Raila Amolo Odinga...

After brief stints as a university lecturer in engineering and in the civil service Raila set out to overthrow Daniel arap Moi's government; his sympathetic biographer Babafemi Badejo ('Raila Odinga: An Enigma in Kenya Politics') tells of his commanding role in the abortive military coup of 1 August 1982 when over 100 people died in Nairobi alone...

The undoubted front-runner in the ODM presidential primaries is Raila Odinga seen as leader of the Luo people...

At the 2002 elections electors voted out the established Kenya African National Union (KANU) in favour of the National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) a shaky alliance which fell apart as relations soured between its incompatible leaders President Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga...

WEMBLEY WASHOUT The only orator to turn up at the Oaking Manor School Auditorium in Wembley was Raila Amolo Odinga (Luo) easily the most ambitious of ODM's would-be presidents...

The Secretariat was run on voluntary contributions from ODM members of parliament whose remittances dried up once Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka's allies (Mutula Kilonzo David Musila) and others began complaining that Peter Anyang' Nyong'o and his team (Omingo Magara and Janet Ongera) had turned the party into a Trojan horse for Raila Amolo Odinga...

Until this month Raila Amolo Odinga's presidential plans were progressing well...

President Mwai Kibaki and his National Alliance Rainbow Coalition are still favourites to win December’s general elections against the largest opposition grouping the broad-based Orange Democratic Movement led by Raila Amolo Odinga...

The other main opposition figures are Raila Odinga (Luo 14%) Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (Kikuyu 5%) and William Ruto (Kalenjin 3%)...