Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka

Odinga at odds with Kalonzo and Mudavadi In the vaults of the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties in Nairobi's Westlands lies a legal agreement between the Orange Democratic Movement Wiper Democratic Movement and Amani National Congress binding Raila Odinga not to stand for president in 2022 and deferring to either Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka or Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi...

On 31 January Nasa leader Kalonzo Musyoka claimed that a grenade had been thrown and shots fired near his home in an assassination attempt several hours after the Uhuru Park rally...

The allocation of positions on various parliamentary committees for which Nasa is constitutionally eligible has led to acrimony between Nasa's constituent parties notably the Kamba-dominated Wiper Democratic Movement of Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka and the mainly Luhya Amani National Congress (ANC) of Wycliffe Mudavadi...

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...

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...