37 Facts About Musalia Mudavadi

Musalia Mudavadi is a former party leader of the Amani National Congress, one of the founding political parties, of the Kenya Kwanza alliance.

Musalia Mudavadi held the position of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Local Government, in the coalition government of Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga.

In May 2012, Musalia Mudavadi resigned from his role as Minister of Local Government to contest for the presidency in the 2013 Kenyan general election where he finished third.

Musalia Mudavadi was the deputy party leader of the Orange Democratic Movement and Party Leader of the United Democratic Forum Party from May 2012 to July 2015.

Musalia Mudavadi is of the ethnic Maragoli dialect, an extract of the populous Luhya community of western Kenya.

Musalia Mudavadi schooled at Nairobi Primary School, then Jamhuri and Nairobi School for his A- levels and the University of Nairobi.

Musalia Mudavadi, first became a Member of Parliament in 1989 when he was elected unopposed in a by-election to take the Sabatia Constituency seat vacated by his deceased father Moses Mudamba Musalia Mudavadi.

Musalia Mudavadi went on to win the seat in the 1992 and 1997 general elections.

Musalia Mudavadi has served as Minister for Supplies and Marketing, Finance, Agriculture, Transport, Communications and Information.

In late 2002 Musalia Mudavadi was the last and shortest serving Vice-President of Kenya under President Daniel arap Moi.

Musalia Mudavadi ran as Uhuru Kenyatta's running mate in the 2002 election.

In 2005 Musalia Mudavadi made a political comeback by joining Raila Odinga's Liberal Democratic Party and aligning himself with the 'No' side in that year's Referendum on the proposed new Constitution amidst speculation that he was set to become the leading Luhya politician.

In 2007 Musalia Mudavadi sought the nomination of the ODM candidate for the December 2007 presidential election.

On September 1,2007, Musalia Mudavadi came second with 391 votes to Odinga's 2,656 votes in a disputed nomination process.

However, along with the other defeated candidates, Musalia Mudavadi supported Odinga and Musalia Mudavadi was named Odinga's running mate for the election.

Musalia Mudavadi was the Deputy Prime Minister representing the ODM while Kenyatta was the Deputy Prime Minister representing Kibaki's Party of National Unity.

In 2012, Musalia Mudavadi sought for the nomination of ODM to be its presidential candidate for the 2013 General Election.

Musalia Mudavadi left ODM after he was technically locked out of the nomination race through a party constitution clause that gave the party leader a direct nomination as the presidential candidate.

Musalia Mudavadi refused to resign as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya citing that the office was a public office and not a party office.

Musalia Mudavadi later took over the United Democratic Front Party and became its flag-bearer for the presidential election.

Musalia Mudavadi objected saying the joint candidate had been agreed upon by consensus and that the partners in the Jubilee Coalition were new and did not have bonafide delegates selected through grassroots elections.

Musalia Mudavadi made a solo run on UDF and came third in the race, for the top leadership in the country in that election.

In July 2015 Musalia Mudavadi abandoned UDF, which was later dissolved.

Musalia Mudavadi formed the Amani National Congress that would take him to the presidential race come 2017.

Keenly aware of the configuration of Kenyan elections, Musalia Mudavadi formed the National Super Alliance coalition and invited the CORD trio of ODM's Raila Odinga, Wiper's Kalonzo Musyoka and Ford-Kenya's Moses Wetang'ula to join.

Musalia Mudavadi was the only principal of the NASA not to stand for an elective seat in 2017 general election as he settled for NASA campaign chairman.

Musalia Mudavadi refused to be part of the swearing-in, terming it unconstitutional.

In March 2021 Musalia Mudavadi strategically aligned with the other two NASA Principals Kalonzo Musyoka and Moses Wetang'ula, and KANU Chairman Gideon Moi, to form the One Kenya Alliance.

Musalia Mudavadi supported the presidential candidature of the Deputy President William Ruto and they won the 9 August 2022 General Election against Raila Odinga who had the support of incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta, with a majority under the Kenya Kwanza Alliance that he had formed while still in OKA.

Musalia Mudavadi was officially sworn in as PCS at State House, Kenya on 27 October 2022.

In March 2010, Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi faced investigation by the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission over a Sh283 million cemetery land fraud.

Musalia Mudavadi protested his innocence and said KACC was being unfair by accusing him without giving him a chance to be heard.

In June 2020 according to court records as reported by the Daily Nation, Musalia Mudavadi did not benefit from cemetery land deal thus was not culpable in the scandal.

Musalia Mudavadi is married to Tessie Musalia Mudavadi and they have three children; Moses, Michael and Maryanne.

Musalia Mudavadi is a fan of English Premier League football team Manchester United and Kenyan Premier League side AFC Leopards.

Musalia Mudavadi once served as a patron of AFC Leopards.

Musalia Mudavadi has an autobiography published in 2019 entitled Musalia Mudavadi: Soaring Above The Storms of Passion.