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Quest to dislodge Raila from key support regions picks momentum

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President William and ODM leader Raila Odinga. Nairobi, Nyanza, Coast and Western, which provided majority Odinga's 6.94 million votes, are Ruto's key targets. [File, Standard]

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.

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