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Kenya: ODM Chief Raila Odinga to Attend Key Kanu Meeting

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Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga will be the chief guest during the Kanu national delegates’ conference in Nairobi this morning.

Kanu chairman and Baringo Senator Gideon Moi is expected to declare his presidential bid at the conference.

Political analysts say the decision by Mr Moi will jolt the One Kenya Alliance (OKA).

Amani National Congress (ANC) chief Musalia Mudavadi, Wiper Party’s Kalonzo Musyoka and Mr Moses Wetang’ula of Ford Kenya, who are also part of OKA, have been invited to the summit.

Tongues wagging

But it is Mr Odinga’s presence and elevation as chief guest that will set tongues wagging on whether Kanu is committed to OKA, which has not named its presidential flag bearer.

“Mr Odinga will be at the meeting,” ODM Secretary-General, Edwin Sifuna, told the Daily Nation Wednesday.

Addressing journalists at the Bomas of Kenya venue of the event, Kanu Secretary-General Nick Salat said the meeting “will not just be about the delegates. It will yield may other things”.

Mr Salat said the National Delegates Conference is a requirement for the party, only that it has come at a time every political outfit is preparing for next year’s General Election.

“Kenyans have been telling us to rise up to the occasion as the independent party. We need to offer leadership to this country,” Mr Salat said.