Waxing spiritual, Raila lights up Prayer Breakfast

President Uhuru Kenyatta greets ODM leader Raila Odinga during the National Prayer Breakfast at the Safari Park hotel. [Evans Ouma, Standard]

Opposition chief turned-to-the President’s ally Raila Odinga lit up the National Prayer Breakfast with a combination of light-heartedness and seriousness.

Mr Odinga elicited cheers when he jokingly told the congregation that just like his NASA co-principal, Kalonzo Musyoka, he was surprised to be invited to the spiritual parley. That being an allusion to post- election animosity between him and the president when the two were barely in talking terms, a state of affairs that meant he was rarely invited to state functions.