The consequences of splitting the opposition vote in the first round are less significant than in earlier contests such as 1997 and 2007 where Daniel arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki won with pluralities...

Many of the country's most senior politicians – including Ruto – were early members of ODM which emerged in 2005 in opposition to then President Mwai Kibaki's plans to change the constitution (AC Vol 46 No 18 Banana-skin vote)...

But it is widely accepted that Odinga not Mwai Kibaki won the 2007 elections...

Abdi's remarks deepened concerns of a replay of 2007 when President Mwai Kibaki's insiders rigged the election and pushed the country to the precipice...

But he advised former Presidents Mwai Kibaki and Uhuru Kenyatta and Prime Minister Raila Odinga...

The city perched on Lake Victoria is finally attracting funds that locals say they were starved of during the Daniel arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki presidencies (AC Vol 58 No 17 New elections old battles)...

In Kenya the administration formed in 2008 after post-election violence between President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader turned Prime Minister Raila Odinga was marred by infighting and a lack of coherent policy direction...

Having inherited a debt burden running at 68% of GDP compared to the record low of 38% bequeathed to former President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ruto by Mwai Kibaki's government in 2012 and a debt repayment burden that is frontloaded in 2023 and 2024 Ruto has chosen belt-tightening...

Insiders say Odinga wants the talks to be based on the model of the negotiations with President Mwai Kibaki that followed the disputed 2007 election and were mediated by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan...