DISPATCHES
It is also well thought of by those opposition leaders such as serial presidential candidate Kalonzo Musyoka former Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i and former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua who are promising to unite behind a single candidate against Ruto next year...
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Its leading lights are Jubilee Party and Wiper Patriotic Front leaders Fred Matiang'i and Kalonzo Musyoka former cabinet ministers Martha Karua and Justin Maturi and former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua (AC Vol 66 No 5 The anti-Ruto alliance)...
Vol 67 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
‘History will record your vote and in 425 days just like the current regime the people will have made a record of the choice you made ' said Wiper Patriotic Front leader Kalonzo Musyoka while former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua described the National Assembly's vote on the bill as a ‘defining moment' for Kenya...
But the optics of voluntarily importing a disease that has already killed several hundred people in eastern Congo-K are poor and have been seized on by opposition leaders including Wiper Democratic Movement-Kenya leader Kalonzo Musyoka and former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua...
With veteran opposition leader Kalonzo Musyoka branding this year's Finance Bill ‘more oppressive' than its predecessor and a former Ruto aide preparing a presidential challenge the ruling coalition is under more strain than it admits...
Leading opposition politicians including former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and Wiper Patriotic Front leader Kalonzo Musyoka say that the perception of bias in favour of the RSF – accused by the United Nations of having committed genocidal acts during its siege of El Fasher – has damaged Kenya's standing in the region (Dispatches 23/2/26 UN says Hemeti's RSF committed genocide in siege of El Fasher)...
Oppositionists led by Wiper Patriotic Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka counter that none of the seats were marginal describing them as ‘a competition between Ruto and Ruto'...
DISPATCHES
Hours later Wiper Patriotic Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka posted on social media that they had ‘expressed strong dissatisfaction with the procurement process of the KIEMS kit and stated clearly that we do not want Smartmatic a company associated with election irregularities in multiple countries anywhere near the systems for the 2027 General Election...
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But the President's hopes of a decisive re-election win – likely to be against Wiper Patriotic Party's Kalonzo Musyoka who has confirmed that he will stand and at least one other senior opposition leader – are predicated on doing a deal with Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement...
Vol 67 No 2 |
- KENYA
- WHO'S WHO
A poll by TIFA Research in December found that a mere 19% of ODM members want Ruto to be their candidate in 2027 and that 34% wanted the party to run its own candidate while 20% would back a member of the now-disbanded Azimio la Umoja alliance – led by Wiper Patriotic Movement leader Kalonzo Musyoka – that supported Raila in 2022...
