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The doyen of opposition politics cannot afford a wink anymore. There appears to be a scramble for bits and scraps of the political empire ODM leader Raila Odinga has built for a quarter century.
Nothing seems to be sacred any more to restive rivals and wannabe successors impatient to inherit the former prime minister's political base with key targets being Nairobi, Nyanza, Coast and Western regions.
These are the voting blocs, which produced majority of the 6.94 million votes (48.85%) Raila garnered in the August 9 presidential contest against William Ruto's 7.18 million votes (50.49%).
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