Win for Raila Odinga's AUC bid after council of ministers drops gender proposal

Similarly, the council dropped the gender rotation hurdle that would have seen Raila locked out of the race to succeed outgoing chair Moussa Faki Mahamat in February next year.

That and a proposal to lock out countries that have produced members of the AUC's senior leadership that would have knocked Kenya out of the race, given it has produced a former AUC deputy chair Erastus Mwencha, who served between 2008 and 2017.