DISPATCHES
The KIEMS kits were at the centre of claims by defeated candidate Raila Odinga that Ruto's team had rigged the results by accessing the elections database (AC Vol 65 No 25 New alliances on shaky ground & Vol 63 No 16 Questions about the electoral referee)...
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This helps explain the split within the Orange Democratic Movement after its then leader Raila Odinga – who died last October – formed an unofficial unity government with Ruto despite younger ODM leaders such as Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna seeing an opportunity to harness the Gen Z movement...
That is the most confident he has sounded since before the Gen Z protests stormed Parliament in June 2024 leading him to sack his cabinet create a de facto unity government with the late Raila Odinga less than two years after narrowly defeating Odinga for the presidency and several months later having his Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua impeached (AC Vol 65 No 16 Raila names his price)...
Winnie Odinga claims that this urgency is in part because the 10-point agenda signed by the late Raila Odinga who died last October and Ruto on 7 March last year to formalise the unity government was only binding for one year (AC Vol 66 No 6 Ex-rivals Ruto and Odinga tussle for power in new alliance & Vol 66 No 21 Opposition colossus Odinga dies leaving succession crisis)...
In the central Gikuyu region and the Rift Valley – Ruto's heartland – there are justifiable fears that ODM's influence would mean more top jobs for politicians from Raila Odinga's fiefdoms in Nyanza and the Coast...
The death of Raila Odinga last October left a void in Kenyan politics and at the heart of his Orange Democratic Movement...
There is still speculation that Ruto's allies led by Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi will try to push through constitutional amendments that look remarkably similar to those in the Building Bridges Initiative – the result of the handshake deal between Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga that was supposed to carry the latter to the presidency in 2022...
President William Ruto and his semi-official allies in the late Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) enjoyed a bumper by-election day on 27 November winning 16 of the 24 seats contested and retaining all those they previously held...
THE PARTY GOES ON AFTER RAILA No expense was spared when the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) marked its 20th anniversary without its talismanic leader Raila Odinga flying in thousands of party delegates for a weekend-long celebration in Mombasa from 14-16 November...
The death of Raila Amolo Odinga has left Nairobi's political class with a compelling question: how much longer before his Orange Democratic Movement splits...
Until the death of Raila Amolo Odinga from a heart attack on 15 October President William Samoei Ruto's path to re-election in August 2027 had seemed clear: having turned his back on the central Mount Kenya region he would need Odinga to deliver his Western and Coastal support bases under a pact offering Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) a string of key ministries and perhaps the deputy presidency...
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Back in 2022 Sakaja won on the ticket of Ruto's United Democratic Alliance (UDA) in a city where a sizable majority had voted for Raila Odinga in successive presidential elections...
Raila Amolo Odinga whose activism helped launch multi-party politics in Kenya and reformed the constitution after winning a national referendum died on 15 October following a heart attack in Kerala India...
The son of the country's first Vice-President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Raila Odinga emerged as leading campaigner for political pluralism and against the authoritarian rule of Daniel arap Moi...