How Mkapa brokered coalition between Odinga and Kibaki
Handshake: President Mwai Kibaki with ODM leader Raila Odinga during a press conference at Harambee House, Nairobi in 2008. Looking on from left is Graca Machel, Kofi Annan and former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
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Each side took a hard-line stance, with Raila’s ODM refusing to recognise Kibaki’s victory.
The Tanzanian leader says it was the decision of his successor Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete to sidestep Mr Ruto and Ms Karua that broke the deadlock in the talks.
He says ODM and PNU teams could not agree on almost anything until Mr Odinga and Mr Kibaki were hoarded into a room with only the negotiators,
