ExpandingAt the end of October Canon Peter Karanja the Anglican Secretary General of the National Council of Churches of Kenya floated the idea of 'expanding the executive' to accommodate a new office of Prime Minister to be appointed at the discretion of the President a leader of the opposition and two deputies: in effect a constitutional amendment to accommodate the aggrieved Odinga and his allies Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka and Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi (AC Vol 58 No 17 New elections old battles)...
Jubilee's Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko is already positioning himself as a rival to one of the Nasa co-founders Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka as leader of the Kamba community putting him on a collision course with Alfred Mutua the new governor of Machakos County...
On 10 October Odinga announced that he and his running mate Kalonzo Musyoka would not participate in the rerun because of the IEBC's failure to meet their demands for electoral reform...
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His chosen successor the youthful Uhuru Kenyatta son of the first president was decisively defeated by the National Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC) an alliance of the 'Rainbow Coalition' of KANU defectors around Raila Odinga Kalonzo Musyoka and George Saitoti and the 'National Alliance' of Mwai Kibaki Charity Ngilu and Kijana Wamalwa which – through Kibaki's Democratic Party - had been the enduring centre of political opposition to KANU since 1991...
Wary alliesThis was new and uncomfortable territory for his more conservative allies Musalia Mudavadi and Kalonzo Musyoka...
The decision appears to have been the product of intense negotiation between its principals in which figures such as Musalia Mudavadi and Kalonzo Musyoka said that they could not support a more confrontational strategy binding Odinga's hands...
Standing next to a sober-looking Kalonzo Musyoka his running mate and Mudavadi the architect of the opposition coalition Odinga set out a high-tech rigging plot...
Nasa's gains owe much to the new-found unity of its five principals: Raila Amolo Odinga Moses Simiyu Wetangula Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi and Isaac Kiprono Ruto...
On 30 June Uhuru was in Kalonzo Musyoka's home county of Kitui where he addressed six rallies and launched the construction of a dam costing 1...
Jubilee has also campaigned hard in Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka's Kamba backyard as well as in Kajiado and Narok counties (both Maasai) which split their votes equally between Raila and Uhuru in 2013...
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After he was chosen as the Nasa flag bearer and that its other leaders – Musalia Mudavadi Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka Isaac Ruto and Moses Wetangula – had decided to back him Odinga's poll ratings surged to over 40%...
Raila (Wycliffe) Musalia Mudavadi Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka and Moses Simiyu Wetangula are keeping firm their ethnic coalition of Luo Luhya Coastal peoples and some of the Kamba (AC Vol 58 No 10 Uhuru spends Raila promises)...
