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Are Ruto and Raila revisiting the unfinished agenda of 2007?

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President William Ruto and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga during the Memorial Service for the Late General Francis Omondi Ogolla at Ulinzi Sports Complex, Lang'ata. [PCS]

The 2007 Presidential poll was a defining moment for Kenya and Raila Odinga's politics. A short walk down memory lane should suffice.

In 2002, the key opposition figures, Raila Odinga, Wamalwa Kijana, Simeon Nyachae, Charity Ngilu and others suppressed their personal presidential ambitions and coalesced around Mwai Kibaki's candidature to root out KANU from four decades of choking political dominance, dictatorship, tribalism, and mismanagement of the economy.

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