This may appease voters in the Lower Eastern Ukambani region which stuck by Kalonzo Musyoka Wiper party leader and key ally of Raila Odinga in the August elections...
Since Odinga's return it is Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka who has taken the lead...
A report that Ruto would offer Kalonzo Musyoka the foreign ministry in exchange for dropping his backing for Odinga's Azimio La Umoja coalition was quickly scotched after the inauguration...
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After his inauguration on 13 September President William Ruto starts his first term with clear control of both houses of parliament and a good chance of expanding that majority by co-opting waverers such as the Wiper party's Kalonzo Musyoka...
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Like his handshake partner President Kenyatta whose Jubilee party was trounced by Ruto's United Democratic Alliance across most of central Kenya and the Rift Valley Odinga has not groomed an obvious successor and his allies such as Orengo and Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka are 71 and 68 years old respectively...
Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka is being touted to stand on the Azimio slate – though he is unwilling to make any commitment until after the Supreme Court ruling – and being a less divisive figure than Wetangula would hope to pick up some KK votes...
Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) won all the four Luo counties both Gusii counties Busia Vihiga and much of the coast while Kalonzo Musyoka's Wiper party took the three Kamba counties and pro-Azimio small parties and the rump of the incumbent Jubilee party in the north...
Kalonzo Musyoka and his Wiper party which won 24 seats are widely seen as one of the more biddable groups should Ruto be confirmed as president...
Although Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka was snubbed by Odinga for the presidential running mate slot he kept backing the Azimio coalition; Wiper swept the board in the three Kamba-dominated counties: Machakos Mukueni and Kitui...
Odinga backed by incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta and with key allies Kalonzo Musyoka and deputy presidential nominee Martha Karua's Azimio La Umoja alliance has the opinion poll lead and the establishment voice to support it...
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The complex pre-election power-sharing deal between the parties in Odinga's Azimio which brought together Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement Kenyatta's Jubilee Kalonzo Musyoka's Wiper party and the Kenya African National Union of Gideon Moi saw the ODM's Tim Wanyonyi abandon his plans to run in favour of Jubilee's candidate Equity Bank executive Polycarp Igathe who will take on Nairobi senator and UDA candidate Johnson Sakaja...
Choosing Karua bumped Odinga ahead of his rival Ruto in the opinion polls but it meant that he disappointed Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka who had expected to the running mate slot having secured in the 2017 elections...