Less than two years after President William Samoei Ruto's narrow defeat of Raila Amolo Odinga in August 2022 the Gen Z protests redrew the political map pulling Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) into a de facto unity coalition (AC Vol 66 No 15 Gen Z protestors vie with old politics)...
Vol 67 No 20 |
- KENYA
- WHO'S WHO
Days after Raila Odinga's burial last October his son Raila Junior was formally installed as the head of the Odinga household in a traditional ceremony at Opoda Farm led by Siaya Senator Oburu Oginga...
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What is striking about Ruto's top team is how many were once close allies of Raila Amolo Odinga who was narrowly defeated in August 2022 and brought into a government coalition after the Gen Z protests in June and July 2024...
The son of Siaya Senator and ODM leader Oburu Oginga and nephew of Raila Odinga Jaoko is a man in a hurry...
The truism that Kenyan political parties are almost exclusively personal vehicles has been spelt out in technicolour by the fate of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) less than a year after the death of its founder Raila Amolo Odinga...
This leaves Ruto with a critical choice: between Kindiki's Gikuyu supporters or the Luo barons who have inherited the ODM and Raila Odinga's political legacy...
In the run-up to the 2022 elections Raila Odinga had the big-name endorsements and the ‘deep state' courtesy of his ‘handshake' deal with Kenyatta...
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His combative new spokesman formerly with the National Police Service Charles Owino sought a career in elected politics joining Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement in 2021 as part of an unsuccessful campaign to obtain nomination for the governorship of Siaya...
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It's a crowded field and this latest breakaway in opposition ranks could benefit President William Samoei Ruto whose ruling coalition has kept the rump of the ODM founded by Raila Odinga inside his political tent for now...
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The group includes Siaya governor James Orengo a close ally of ODM founder the late Raila Odinga Nairobi senator Edwin Sifuna and Embakasi East MP Babu Owino...
Yet veteran contender Musyoka appears determined to stand again having backed ODM leader Raila Odinga in 2013 2017 and 2022...
Even a year ago few would have imagined that Kisumu Kenya's main port city on Lake Victoria and late opposition leader Raila Odinga's fiefdom for four decades would host a rally of more than 10 000 people for President William Ruto...
When Ruto co-opted five ODM members into his cabinet as part of a de facto coalition deal with Raila Odinga in July 2024 he shrewdly gave them key spending ministries where they would have to make unpopular decisions...
Ruto is still haunted by the national protests in 2024 which wrongfooted him pushed him to drop the finance bill and form a de facto coalition with the late Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (AC Vol 65 No 14 Youth revolt wins after Ruto scraps finance bill and pledges talks)...
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2% for Raila Odinga over Ruto in the 2022 presidential election the UDA's David Keter was comfortably elected with more than 18 000 votes in the Emurua Dikirr constituency by-election (AC Vol 66 No 24 Ruto holds the parties together)...
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