He has three options: to stay put via a constitutional device; to hand over to KANU's old bruisers such as Nicholas Kipyator Biwott and George Saitoti; or to pass the baton to the younger generation such as Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi and Uhuru Kenyatta...
The strategy emerged during his visit to the United Nations General Assembly last October from discussions with his closest advisors: Joshua Chelego Kulei (personal assistant and relative) Sally Kosgei (civil service head) Hosea Kiplagat (nephew and Cooperative Bank of Kenya boss) Uhuru Kenyatta (in the wings; son of the late President Jomo Kenyatta)...
Orengo and Beth Wambui Mugo (Uhuru Kenyatta's cousin) wants to dissolve all opposition parties and form a single party to face KANU-NDP next year...
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For now Moi and Raila will back Local Government Minister Uhuru Kenyatta (Kiambu Kikuyu) as he fights Kamotho (Murang'a Kikuyu) to be KANU secretary general...
Party stalwarts Joseph Kamotho (Kikuyu) Uhuru Kenyatta (Kikuyu) Nicholas Biwott (Kalenjin) and George Saitoti (Maasai) have been told to put all they've got into turning the Kikuyu like the Luo back to KANU...
The weekend after parliament adopted his report Raila Odinga led a 40-vehicle motorcade into Nyeri District in the Kikuyu heartland taking along the late Jomo Kenyatta's son Uhuru Kenyatta a KANU stalwart who lost the parliamentary election to an opposition neophyte in 1997...
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Equally Moi has been sounding out Kikuyu views of the succession through KANU Secretary General Joseph Kamotho and Uhuru Kenyatta...
Not even the late Jomo Kenyatta's name could save his son Uhuru Kenyatta (KANU) a business partner of Moi's sons who lost Gatundu South by 12 000 votes to the Social Democratic Party's little known Moses Mwihia...