Nairobi — President Kibaki last Friday made a grand entrance at Eldoret in a symbolic move that announced the changing fortunes of his co-principal in the grand coalition government and his main opponent in 2007, Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
The gathering had been billed as a national reconciliation and healing rally, but it was full of political undertones coming as it did only a week after Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka, Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto announced in Kericho that they were working together in the approach to elections next year.
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