(Bloomberg) -- Allies of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga requested a meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta, five days after Odinga agreed a surprise truce with the nation’s leader, the Daily Nation reported.
Kalonzo Musyoka, Odinga’s running mate in last year’s presidential election, along with Amani National Congress head Musalia Mudavadi and FORD-Kenya leader Moses Wetang’ula are seeking an “all-inclusive dialogue” with Kenyatta, the Nairobi-based newspaper quoted Musyoka as saying.
Odinga announced March 9 he was abandoning a defiance campaign aimed at toppling Kenyatta and will work with him to foster national unity instead -- an announcement that caught the other three leaders of his four-party National Super Alliance by surprise and signaled the collapse of the coalition.
Divisions within the alliance’s ranks became evident on Jan. 30, when Musyoka, Mudavadi and Wetang’ula missed a mock inauguration ceremony in Nairobi, where Odinga declared himself the so-called people’s president. Fellow leaders of Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement branded his coalition partners cowards for not attending the event.
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