The first Luo president will be Rosemary Odinga

Rosemary Odinga has already thrown her hat into the ring  PHOTO/DENNIS OKEYO

One night in October 1991, a bespectacled, clean-shaven man in priestly robes walked into a house where his children had sought refuge. One of the daughters looked at the man and recognised the face of his father: Raila Odinga.

The man was a fugitive and that night, he had turned up at his sister-in-law’s house in a kind of final goodbye to his children, before he began his journey into exile in Uganda. That little girl, who recognised her heavily disguised father, was Rosemary Akeyo Odinga, the second-born child of ODM leader Raila Odinga.