Agreeing on a common candidate has emboldened the alliance's principles Amani National Congress leader Musalia Mudavadi Wiper party's Kalonzo Musyoka Gideon Moi of the Kenya African National Union and Ford-Kenya's Moses Wetang'ula to believe that similar tactics could see one of them take the presidency as a compromise candidate (AC Vol 62 No 6 Raila's weak grip)...

Amani National Congress leader Musalia Mudavadi (Odinga's running mate in 2007) Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka Kenya African National Union's Gideon Moi (son of Kenya's second President Daniel arap Moi) and Ford Kenya leader Moses Wetang'ula have created their own 'Sacred Alliance' faction and are conducting their own campaigning on the BBI under the banner of a 'One Kenya Movement'...

His much-photographed visit on the following day at Gideon Moi's residence prompted speculation about whether the First Family is considering him as its nominee to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2022 (AC Vol 61 No 14 A big tent for Moi's children)...

With Kenyatta on a deal-making spree – he had signed pre-election coalition pacts with Gideon Moi's Kenyan African National Union Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka's Wiper Democratic Party and former Council of Governors chair Isaac Ruto's Chama cha Mashinani (The Grassroots Party) – Murathe's abrasive remarks told Odinga that he was no longer indispensable to Kenyatta's succession plans...

The growing prominence of Gideon Moi son of late President Daniel arap Moi in the succession matrix we understand should be taken seriously...

A coalition between Mudavadi's Amani National Congress (ANC) and Gideon Moi's KANU would have expanded the reach and influence of these two Moi scions beyond their individual ethnic bastions...

Both the sinecures and concrete political benefits have arrived: the appointment of KANU's Samuel Poghisio as Senate Majority Leader; various state appointments and more ostentatiously Gideon Moi's assignment to represent President Kenyatta at new Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera's inauguration...

Days before the State House purge the Kenyatta faction had formalised Jubilee's coalition agreement with KANU whose leader Gideon Moi is considered a useful counterweight to Ruto in the Rift Valley; it is too early to tell whether Moi is being mooted as Kenyatta's successor...

Moi's son Baringo Senator Gideon Moi who continues to contest Ruto's status as the Kalenjin kingpin has described a Kenyatta-Odinga political pact as 'a sure bet'...

Ruto retains broad support among his Kalenjin people although he is challenged for supremacy from Gideon Moi and Joshua Kutuny...

It would be the first Kikuyu/Luo alliance since 2002 and even some Kalenjin politicians who oppose Ruto such as Gideon Moi and Joshua Kutuny seem likely to join in...

But he continues to watch his back in the Rift Valley where fellow Kalenjin Gideon Moi (son of ex-President Daniel arap Moi) is determined to spoil his act by running for the presidency in alliance with Odinga's former running mates Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi (a Luhya) and possibly Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka who still commands a considerable following among the Kamba...