Mwai Kibaki 2002-2013

Mwai Kibaki, (born 15 November 1931) is a kenya politician. He was the third Presidentof kenya, serving from December 2002 to April 2013.
Kibaki was first elected President in 2002 after beating Uhuru  Kenyattam, now his successor as Kenya's current and 4th President and the son of Kenya's founding President,Jomo Kenyatta, after two failed bids in 1992 and 1997, both of which he lost to then long serving incumbent, Kenya's 2nd President,Daniel Arap Moi. Kibaki was re-elected in controversial circumstances in 2007 after beating prominent opposition leader Raila Odinga.
Kibaki was previously Vice President for ten years from 1978 to 1988 under PresidentMoi. He also held cabinet ministerial positions in the Kenyatta and Moi governments, including a widely acclaimed stint as Minister for Finance (1969–1981) under Kenyatta, and Minister for Home Affairs (1982–1988) and Minister for Health (1988–1991) under Moi.

2002 elections

In preparation for the 2002 elections, Kibaki's Democratic Party affiliated with several other opposition parties to form Nationa Alliance Party of Kenya (NAK). A group of disappointed KANU presidential aspirants then quit KANU in protest after being overlooked by outgoing President Moi when Moi had founding Father Jomo Kenyatta’s son, Uhuru, nominated to be the KANU presidential candidate, and hurriedly formed the Leberal Democratic party (LDP). NAK later combined with the LDP to form the National Rainbow coalition (NARC). On 14 October 2002, at a large opposition rally in Uhuru Part nairobi, Kibaki was nominated the NARC opposition alliance presidential candidate after Raila Odinga made the famous declaration, Kibaki Tosha!
On 3 December 2002, Kibaki was injured in a road accident while on his way back to Nairobi from a campaign meeting at Machakos junction 40 kilometres From Nairobi. He was subsequently hospitalised in Nairobi, then London, after sustaining fracture injuries in the accident. He still walks rather awkwardly as a result of those injuries. The rest of his presidential campaign was thus conducted by his NARC colleagues in his absence, led by Raila Odinga and the late Kijana Wamalwa (who went on to become the Vice President) who campaigned tirelessly for Kibaki after stating, "The captain has been injured in the field... but the rest of the team shall continue."
On 27 December 2002, Kibaki and NARC won a landslide victory over KANU, with Kibaki getting 62% of the votes in the presidential elections, against only 31% for the KANU candidate Uhuru Kenyatta

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