Kenya opposition figures jostle to fill Raila’s big shoes
Wiper Party Leader Kalonzo Musyoka (C) accompanied by Usawa Kwa Wote Party Leader Mwangi Wa Iria (L) and DAP-K Party Leader Eugene Wamalwa (R) address a gathering in Ol Rongai, Nakuru County, Kenya. PHOTO | NMG
Kenya's former prime minister Raila Odinga has spent the past three weeks trying to reassure his supporters that his retreat or exit from national politics, in the event he becomes the African Union Commission (AUC) chairman next year, would not create a leadership vacuum in the opposition.
On Thursday, he told a membership recruitment rally for his Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) in the northern Kenya country of Wajir that he would entrust the political party’s leadership to his two deputies Wycliffe Oparanya and Ali Hassan Joho if he were to take up the job at the Addis Ababa-based AUC.
