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...
The new Justice Minister Eugene Wamalwa is a younger brother of the late Michael Kijana Wamalwa who served as Vice-President and recently as a cheerleader for the Kenyatta-Ruto partnership...
Now however support is growing in western Kenya for Eugene Wamalwa the younger brother of Kibaki’s former Vice-President the late Michael Kijana Wamalwa...
Having taken over Ford-Kenya's leadership when Vice-President Michael Wamalwa died in 2003 Kombo's primary preoccupation has been to consolidate himself as the principal voice of the Luhya of Western Kenya...
In late March Ford-Kenya leader Musikari Kombo (who took over the party's leadership from the late Michael Wamalwa Kijana) suggested to Kibaki that the NARC recruitment drive be halted...
Success depends on wooing the Luhya party the Forum for Democracy-Kenya (Ford-Kenya) whose leader Musikari Kombo took over when Vice-President Michael Kijana Wamalwa died last year...
Ngilu); and the National Party of Kenya led at the last elections by the late Vice-President Michael Kijana Wamalwa...
Apart from hijacking the constitutional review the most pressing issue facing Mount Kenya is choosing a replacement for late Vice-President Michael Kijana Wamalwa who died last month...
The old National Alliance of Kenya is led by President Mwai Kibaki Vice-President Michael Kijana Wamalwa and the effective new Health Minister Charity K...
Contemptuously dismissed a year ago as lacking the skills and patience of his late father opposition leader Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Raila is now second in importance only to Kibaki (much to Vice-President Michael Wamalwa Kijana's frustration) and his presidential ambitions are harder to rubbish...
