Book lays bare Kibaki, Raila political duels

President Mwai Kibaki and ODM leader Raila Odinga sign a peace accord in the presence of chief mediator Kofi Annan and other leaders in Harambee House, Nairobi, in 2008 after post-election violence.

A political confidant of former President Mwai Kibaki says the retired Head of State should have mended fences with former Prime Minister Raila Odinga in the early years of the National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) government.

Joseph Barrage Wanjui was Kibaki's closest adviser and once said on television that Kenya was better off with the former PM in the Opposition. He now suggests in his new book that keeping Raila in Narc would have ensured its stability and reshaped Kenya's politics.