Musalia Mudavadi

In 2015, Musalia Mudavadi formed his own party that would take him to the presidential race come 2017. Amani National Congress a party that has already declared him as its presidential candidate has already received a lot of insights from the political field. Currently Musalia Mudavadi is a core principal of opposition National Super Alliance (NASA).

In 2012 Musalia Mudavadi sought for the Nomination of ODM to be its presidential candidate for the 2013 general elections. He later on decamped from the party sighting lack of political freedom in the party. He said that the ODM party Leader Raila Odinga had placed illegal/unconstitutional political mechanisms that made it impossible for any other president aspirant to seek a successful free and fair presidential nomination. He later on joined United Democratic Party a party from the central region and became its flag-bearer for the presidential election. He came a close third in the run for top leadership in the country.

On 16 January 2012 the Law Society of Kenya(LSK) identified Mudavadi as one of the public officials have been mentioned adversely in various reports on issues ranging from corruption to economic crimes. The LSK advised voters not to vote those mentioned in the report as they had previously compromised.

Mudavadi is the first Deputy prime minister while Uhuru Kenyatta is the 2nd Deputy Prime minister. Both Deputy prime ministers do not have ministerial portfolios. Uhuru resigned in March and musalia mudavadi resigned as Local government minister in early May 2012.

In March 2010, Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi come under investigation by the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission(KACC) over the Sh283 million cemetery land fraud. KACC officials said that they wanted to establish whether the minister was party to the fraud in which the City Council of Nairobi bought land valued at Sh24 million for nearly Sh300 million. Mr Mudavadi protested his innocence and said KACC was being unfair by accusing him without giving him a chance to be heard. Investigations are currently ongoing into the matter.

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Although the election was officially won by Kibaki, ODM disputed the official results and claimed victory for Odinga. A violent crisis developed, which eventually led to the signing of a power-sharing agreement between Kibaki and Odinga. As part of the grand coalition Cabinet, Mudavadi was named as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Local Government on 13 April 2008. He was the Deputy Prime Minister representing the ODM, while Kenyatta was the Deputy Prime Minister representing Kibaki's Party of National Unity. Mudavadi and the rest of the Cabinet were sworn in on 17 April.

After the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) split from the ODM-K, Mudavadi sought the nomination of the ODM as its candidate for the December 2007 presidential election. On 1 September 2007, the ODM elected Odinga as its presidential candidate; Mudavadi took second place with 391 votes, far short of Odinga's 2,656 votes. Along with the other defeated candidates, Mudavadi expressed his support for Odinga afterward, and he was named Odinga's running mate for the election.

In 2005, Mudavadi made a political comeback by aligning himself with the 'No' side in that year's Referendum on the proposed new Constitution. This aligned him clearly with Raila Odinga's LDP and it was speculated that he could become the leading Luhya politician.

In late 2002, Mudavadi was the last and shortest serving Vice-President of Kenya under President Daniel Arap Moi. Mudavadi was appointed in an unsuccessful attempt to bring the then Western Province votes into the camp of KANU, which had been the party of government since independence.

Mudavadi ran for Vice-President as Uhuru Kenyatta's running mate in the 2002 election. Despite the support of the outgoing President Moi, the KANU political machine and the provincial administration, the Kenyatta/Mudavadi ticket was roundly beaten and Mudavadi lost his Sabatia parliamentary seat.

He first became an MP in 1989, when he was elected unopposed to take the Sabatia Constituency seat vacated by his deceased father Moses Mudavadi.

Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi (born 16 September 1961, Sabatia, Vihiga District) is a Kenyan politician, who served as the seventh Vice President of Kenya in 2002 and as Deputy Prime Minister from 2008- 2012 May when he resigned officially to join the presidential race. He is the current Party Leader of Amani National Congress (ANC) after decamping from the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) led by the prime minister Raila Odinga in 2012 where before his resignation he served as the deputy party leader.He was third in the 2013 Kenyan general election.