Coalition for Reform and Democracy leader Raila Odinga and Amani National Congress leader Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi agreed that a National Super Alliance (Nasa) will launch in February...
ODM's prospects are worsened by the fact that (Wycliffe) Musalia Mudavadi who leads the populous Maragoli segment of the Luhya is a perennial vacillator when it comes to choosing between Jubilee and CORD...
The second-largest ethnic group the Luhya who were solidly on the side of Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) in 2007 are now split three ways between the Jubilee Alliance Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi's Amani National Congress and CORD...
The Luhya heartland in western Kenya is deeply divided between three parties: CORD still has huge support in Busia and Bungoma and the Moi-era Finance Minister (Wycliffe) Musalia Mudavadi's Amani National Congress is likely to dominate his native Kakamega even as he repeatedly promises to attract a majority nationwide...
They could hire four more cabinet secretaries to shore up their support in under-represented regions like Western Kenya (former Deputy Prime Minister Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi is mentioned as one possibility) but they have taken no action...
Luhya voters had to choose between local man Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi and Odinga and were crucial as were a dozen smaller ethnic groups (AC Vol 54 No 5 Jubilee aims to win it in one & Swing counties hold the key)...
The electronic results that had reached it suggested that the number of rejected ballots (placed in the wrong box or where voters’ intentions could not be detected) would top an incredible 600 000 nationwide with an apparently excessive vote for the third candidate Musalia Mudavadi...
Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi could be the kingmaker...
They may well support Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi’s United Democratic Front which is likely to be in third place after the first round with about 5% of the vote...
More recently when Musalia Mudavadi left Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement a move said to have been influenced by forces within State House keen to disrupt the ODM’s Western Kenya support base that also did not produce the desired effect...
Second-tier candidates such as the United Democratic Front’s Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi Martha Karua from Narc-Kenya (formerly the National Rainbow Alliance) Peter Kenneth of the Kenya National Congress and James ole Kiyiapi of the Restore and Build Kenya party tried to make an impression but didn’t make the breakthrough they had hoped for...
In 2013 Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi may control the largest bloc of votes outside the two main coalitions although he seems to be supported by only half of his own Luhya community...
