The 14-party Narc coalition is full of personal rivalries (such as that between Foreign Minister Kalonzo Musyoka (AC Vol 44 No 4) and Health Minister Charity Ngilu) and ethnic intrigues - but the 'swing politician' is Odinga...
When Moi anointed Uhuru Kenyatta as KANU's presidential candidate Odinga stormed out taking an improbable gang of KANU stalwarts with him such as George Saitoti Joseph Kamotho Kalonzo Musyoka and Fred Gumo...
Foreign Minister Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka's swing through Washington and London last week reinforced the aid-for-security cooperation trade-off dominating Kenyan policy...
Two Kenya African National Union defectors Education Minister George Saitoti and Foreign Minister Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka have effortlessly floated to the top of the new dispensation...
Kamba will be a key swing region led by Kalonzo Musyoka and Charity Ngilu for NARC and by numerous undistinguished ministers for KANU assisted by the bizarre figure of John Harun Mwau as KANU's Kilome candidate...
At a huge rally in Nairobi's Uhuru Park scheduled to coincide with the KANU Kasarani show an estimated 50 000 people cheered the fresh KANU defectors to the opposition Saitoti Kamotho Energy Minister Raila Amolo Odinga ex-cabinet ministers Kalonzo Musyoka William Ntimana and Awiti Adhu all of them KANU Rainbow dissidents...
KANU's problems are more serious since Rainbow leaders Saitoti Energy Minister Raila Odinga and Tourism Minister Kalonzo Musyoka attended a rally last week beside the formal opposition National Alliance of Kenya (NAK) led by Mwai Kibaki Michael Kijana Wamalwa and Charity Ngilu and the People's Alliance under Simeon Nyachae...
The merger prompted Moi to demonstrate the new party's inclusiveness by doling out four vice-chairmanships to: Uhuru Kenyatta (Kikuyu); Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi (Luhya); Katana Ngala (Giriama/Coastal); and Kalonzo Musyoka (Kamba)...
The four new vice-chairmen Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi (Luhya) Uhuru Kenyatta (Kikuyu) Katana Ngala (Giriama/Coastal) and Kalonzo Musyoka (Kamba) have no specific functions other than those Moi assigns them...
He prevailed on Joseph Nyagah (Embu/Mbeere) and Harun Mwau (Kamba) to step aside for Kalonzo Musyoka as best placed to deliver the Kamba vote in Eastern Province...
Moi was slow to fill the post; the leading candidates whom he kept in suspense and who all believe they are still in the running were: Education Minister Kalonzo Musyoka (Kamba 11 per cent of the population); NDP leader Raila Odinga (Luo 14 per cent); Saitoti (Kikuyu 23 per cent and Maasai 4 per cent); ex-Finance Minister Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi (Luhya 15 per cent); Nyachae (Kisii 9 per cent); Lands Minister Katana Ngala (Coast 11 per cent)...
