This is supposed to be a biography of Uhuru Kenyatta but reading the Naion serialization of the book with an intro "Cord leader Raila Odinga was putting the final touches to his victory speech only to abandon it when IEBC declared Uhuru winner with 50.07 per cent of the votes cast", I wonder why Peter Irungu Thatiah has to bring in Raila even with inconceivable claims. How could Raila be making a victory speech when Uhuru was ahead? His plans at this point was a re-run! The negative mention of Raila does not surprise me but now I have no motivation to read the serialization beyond the heading!!!!

Mutua was [still is] an interesting specimen. He was the archetypal showman. His campaign manifesto read like a fiction blockbuster, rich in fantasy and economic nonsense. A journalist and movie-maker, the reality of his world resembled the movies he made.
When meeting strangers and acquaintances alike, Mutua most often spent more than half the conversation talking about himself.

The serialization must have been done by a class 3 dropout!!

Ferdinand Waititu, the undisputed caliph of the sprawling Embakasi, had taken over TNA in the city. Most TNA top brass did not like him . . .

Jubilee had wanted a polished nugget to sell in the city, a man who could tally with the party’s own digital message. Instead they got a contractor from Ruai who was more rugged than the quarries where he got his stones for building
houses and roads.

At the time Kenyatta was signing his exclusive deal with Ruto, Kenneth and Mudavadi had agreed to sign a deal at Freedom Corner in Uhuru Park.

A day to the signing of the pact, Kenneth switched off his phones. He had been with Raphael Tuju, discussing another deal.

Then they decided to go back to Mudavadi together. Unfortunately for them, Mudavadi had already been taken by Ruto and Kenyatta.

It was now the time for Mudavadi to switch off the phone on Kenneth and Tuju.

he three men signed the document, in addition to lawyers Desterio Oyatsi for Kenyatta and Dan Ameyo for Mudavadi. Curiously, Ruto didn’t bring a lawyer.

Mudavadi should have seen that the two men were working in league, but the deal was getting sweeter.

Kenyatta and Ruto informed Mudavadi that The National Alliance would get 45 per cent slots in the coming government, while URP would get 35 per cent and UDF the remaining 20.

TNA and URP would get more seats because of agreeing to surrender their ambitions in favour of Mudavadi.

Kenyatta and Ruto informed Mudavadi that the deal would remain secret for 14 days until the two men had prepared their supporters for the announcement.

Three days later, the three invited the media at Laico Regency to witness the signing of a coalition deal.

The public deal and the one signed in secret at Kenyatta’s home, were as unalike as chalk and cheese.

Although the secret deal stipulated that Mudavadi would be the undisputed presidential candidate, the new deal said there would be a public nomination whose modalities were as vague as everything happening around the three men.

This time he spoke some unkind words in a public rally and declared in Gikuyu that kihiigititumagwouthoni

When Cyrus Jirongo came to Kilimo House expecting an orderly transition, he was shocked to find that Masakhalia had already bolted out via a back door.

Mwihia’s team drew its inspiration from what happened in Gachoka Constituency in 1992. A few days to elections, DP candidate Norman Nyagah suddenly vanished. His father and the entire family blamed Kanu for the disappearance.

Although it was projected that Norman Nyagah was going to win the seat anyway, the kidnapping saga turned supporters of his foes to his side and Nyagah won with an overwhelming majority.

So why not try the same trick on Uhuru Kenyatta? All the ingredients were there.

The people would be told a powerful Kenyatta family and the Daniel arap Moi regime had kidnapped a peasant candidate who had come to liberate the people from strong forces.

In fact, they had killed him and thrown the body into a river. It was as simple as that.

One of the participants was Samuel Mwihia Kariuki, a nephew of Moses Mwihia. A young man called Moses Kuria also played a role.

In a strange twist, it was the same Moses Kuria who would emerge as one of the fiercest propagandists for Uhuru Kenyatta in the future and even become Gatundu South MP on Kenyatta’s TNA party.

From that time onwards, he claimed, he had been in hiding.

It was a deceptively simple tale, but the die had been cast.

Uhuru Kenyatta voted in the morning. Moses Mwihia voted late in the afternoon, having waited until his ballot boxes were overflowing.

His ploy paid off handsomely. He was declared winner with just over 22,000 votes, beating Uhuru Kenyatta to second place with slightly above 10,000 votes