The party would go to the elections due by December with a slate of youngish politicians who could mobilise ethnic support for a Moi-friendly transition: Kenyatta (Kikuyu 41) Cyrus Jirongo (Luhya 44) Julius Sunkuli (Maasai 43) Raila Odinga (Luo 57 son of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga) William Ruto (Kalenjin 50)...
In Cold War days he used to inform US diplomats that he was the first African to fight communism in Kenya (while the British and US papers were painting Raila's late father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga as pro-communist)...
In the past two weeks we hear there have been frantic private consultations between on the one hand Raila Odinga (titular head of the Luo people Chairman of the NDP and son of the late patriarch Jaramogi Oginga Odinga) and on the other hand Moi (Kalenjin) his personal assistant Joshua Kulei and his associates - Mark Too and Amos Wako Attorney General...
He opposed the radical politics first of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and then of his son Raila...
8 million votes and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga (Raila's late father) won 93 000...
Wamalwa's attempt to set up a rival head office named Jaramogi Oginga Odinga House (after the late party leader) at Nairobi's Hurlingham Arcade seems to have impressed neither Odinga Junior nor his Luo followers...