Gideon Ndambuki

In 2017 he contested for the Gubernatorial Seat for Makueni County under the Jubilee Ticket and lost.

Amid a violent crisis over the results, with supporters of Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga disputing the outcome, Mwai Kibaki appointed Ndambuki as Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture.The political crisis eventually led to the signing of a power-sharing agreement between Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga. In the Grand Coalition Cabinet that was announced on 13 April 2008, Ndambuki remained Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture.

In the months leading up to the 2002 general election, under the leadership of then KANU secretary general, Raila Odinga, he decamped from KANU to join the National Rainbow Coalition, which went on to win the general elections. Ndambuki was elected as the M.P for Kaiti Constituency for the second time.

Ndambuki vied for the Kaiti Constituency parliamentary seat in 1997, and won. At the time, Kenya had already become a multi-party state with Kenya African National Union (KANU) as the ruling party, which also recaptured power with majority of votes in that General Election. After the 1997 general election, Ndambuki was appointed Minister of State in the Office of the President in charge of: Development, Drought Management Programme, Directorate of Personnel Management (DPM) by retired president the late Daniel Arap Moi. He was transferred to the Ministry for Lands in 1999, serving until 2000. He served in Speaker panel of the National assembly in 2000.

Kenya's second multiparty elections were held in 1997. Ndambuki stayed in KANU, and was appointed Assistant Minister in charge of: Development, Drought Management Programme, Directorate of Personnel Management (DPM).

Ndambuki was born in Kaiti, in a remote part of Makueni District in Kenya's Eastern Province. Between 1958 and 1965 he studied at Ukia Primary School to attain basic education. Then he went to Kangundo High School in Machakos for the ordinary level from where he graduated in the advanced level in 1969.Gideon Ndambuki graduated with a Bachelor of Small Business Management from the Emporia State University in 1978. He continued further studies at Emporia State University United States of America where he earned a MBA.

Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki (born 1947) is a Kenyan politician. He has been the Kaiti Constituency MP since 1997 when the constituency was established, and was a minister between 1998 and 2002. At the 1997 and 2002 elections he won the seat representing the KANU party, but represented the Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya at the 2007 Kenyan parliamentary election. He unsuccessfully vied for the Makueni County Senate seat during Wiper Democratic Party nominations in the run-up to the 2013 General Elections in Kenya. Educated in the US, he was an employee of the Commercial Bank of Africa in the 1980s, and more controversially, Managing Director of Trade Bank between 1986 and its collapse in 1993.