After merging Jubilee and ODM Kenyatta had planned to bring the leaders of the smaller parties – Musalia Mudavadi Kalonzo Musyoka Gideon Moi and Moses Wetangula – into a wider coalition for an Odinga presidency that would stop the Ruto juggernaut (AC Vol 62 No 21 Raila beats Ruto as the oligarchs' favourite & Vol 62 No 23 Cash takes on the kingpins)...

All of them have their presidential ambitions and reasons to distrust Odinga: Ford Kenya's Moses Wetangula Amani National Congress's Musalia Mudavadi and the Wiper party's Kalonzo Musyoka joined by Kenya African National Union chairman Gideon Moi...

Having formed OKA in protest at being marginalised by the 'handshake' politics of Odinga and Kenyatta the four leaders in the minor league – Mudavadi Musyoka Gideon Moi and Wetangula – are keeping their powder dry...

The Mount Kenya Foundation money will probably back Odinga and whichever formation emerges from a possible deal with the lacklustre One Kenya Alliance – the old National Super Alliance principals plus the Kenya African National Union's Gideon Moi...

Unravelling tentKenyatta had hoped that his 'big tent' politics would co-opt not just Odinga but also the two leaders of the main Luhya parties Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetangula Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka a Kamba and Gideon Moi a Kalenjin and leader of the Kenya African National Union in this new grand coalition...

The other possible contestants – Musalia Mudavadi and Kalonzo Musyoka – sometimes talk about fronting a third force possibly led by Gideon Moi who himself seems unsure...

These include: Amani National Congress chief Musalia Mudavadi Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka Gideon Moi of the Kenya African National Union and Ford-Kenya's Moses Wetangula...

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'...