A week beforehand in Nairobi the Kenyan government approached Awad to publicly back Kenya's plea for an Intergovernmental Authority on Development mediation effort led by its former Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka...

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...

Already Wiper Democratic Movement leader Kalonzo Musyoka and Ford-Kenya's Moses Wetangula have signalled their interest in a partnership (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...

The next former opposition party to be co-opted is set to be the Wiper Democratic Movement after the party's National Executive Council gave the go-ahead to Kalonzo Musyoka Odinga's former running mate to finalise a pact with Jubilee on 22 May and formally leave Nasa...

In an autobiography released in December Mudavadi depicts Odinga as a master of double-talk who selfishly left him (and fellow Nasa leaders Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka and Moses Wetangula) out of the 'handshake' deal that Odinga struck with Kenyatta in March 2018 (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal and Vol 59 No 14 Hanging on a handshake)...

These include Musalia Mudavadi (Luhya) Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka (Kamba) and Moses Simiyu Wetangula (Bukusu); their supporters say the report has no legal or constitutional basis...

The other main Nasa supremo Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka a Kamba is fond of contradicting himself; praising Raila for astute leadership of the opposition one day and then asking Kenyatta for a top government job the next...

Former leaders of the opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa) Raila Odinga Kalonzo Musyoka Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetang'ula led government teams around the country to promote the card...

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...