President Ruto and Raila Odinga at State House, where he was officially unveiled as Kenya's candidate for the Chairperson of the African Union Commission. [File, PCS]
While Raila Amolo Odinga lived, he kept Luo Nyanza as his political playfield. None of those competing to inherit his political estate has his command. They just invoke his name and hope that Raila’s core constituency, the Luo people that he inherited from Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, would follow them.