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On regional analysis, the polls showed him behind Raila in all regions of the country except Central Province, Embu and Meru, where he was projected to take most of the votes, and behind Kalonzo Musyoka in Kalonzo's native Ukambani.
Three days later, after a protracted count which saw presidential results in Kibaki's Central Kenya come in last, allegedly inflated, in a cloud of suspicion and rising tensions, amid vehement protests by Raila's ODM, overnight re-tallying of results and chaotic scenes, all beamed live on TV, at the national tallying center at the Kenyatta International Conference Center in Nairobi, riot police eventually sealed off the tallying Center ahead of the result announcement, evicted party agents, observers and the media, and moved the Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Samuel Kivuitu, to another room where Kivuitu went on to declare Kibaki the winner by 4, 584, 721 votes to Odinga's 4, 352, 993, placing Kibaki ahead of Odinga by about 232, 000 votes in the hotly contested election with Kalonzo Musyoka a distant third.
The arrangement, which also includes Kalonzo Musyoka as Vice President, is known as the " Grand Coalition Government ".
* January 3: Kalonzo Musyoka becomes foreign minister of Kenya.
Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka ( born December 24, 1953 ) is a Kenyan politician, currently serving as Vice President of Kenya.
Kalonzo Musyoka graduated with a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Nairobi in 1977.
In December 19th, 2008, Kalonzo Musyoka was honored with a Doctorate in Humane Letters ( honoris causa ) in recognition of his achievements in peace making, conflict resolution efforts, sustainable community development and humanistic ideals by Kenyatta University during its 25th graduation.
On December 1st, 2003, as the Minister for home affairs and international cooperation for Kenya, he welcomed the people to this meeting, whose theme was Strengthening the role of IGAD in regional peace initiatives and post conflict reconstruction on behalf of the republic of Kenya and thanked the Danish government, IGAD Secretariat and the ISS on behalf of the IGAD Member States for their preparations and funding of the meeting. Kalonzo Musyoka was involved in the Sudan peace process between 1993-1997 and he was part of the team that reconstituted the draft establishing IGAD in 1995.
Subsequently Kalonzo Musyoka decamped Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) into the little known Labor Party of Kenya.
Kalonzo Musyoka was widely expected to vie for the presidency in the December 2007 election.
Kalonzo Musyoka is married to Pauline.
He is the patron of the Kalonzo Musyoka Foundation and he has served since 2006.
* Kalonzo Musyoka Foundation
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The former is led by Raila Odinga and the latter by Kalonzo Musyoka.
Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka ( born December 24, 1953 ) is a Kenyan politician, currently serving as Vice President of Kenya.
On 8 January 2008, Kibaki named Kalonzo Musyoka to replace Awori as Vice-President and Minister of Home Affairs, and Awori handed over the office on 9 January.
Later Kalonzo Musyoka and Raila Odinga, having realised their side KANU was going to lose, jumped ship to take advantage of the situation and the people, to present a unified challenge to then-president Daniel arap Moi's Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) party.

Kalonzo and between
Kalonzo however said that " atapitia katikati " ( passing between two people ).

Kalonzo and .
* Ilunga A. Kalonzo Ilunga, politician, Congo

Musyoka and then
Musyoka served in the government under President Daniel arap Moi and was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1993 until 1998 ; subsequently, under President Mwai Kibaki, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs again from 2003 to 2004, then Minister of the Environment from 2004 to 2005.

Musyoka and for
Musyoka vied for the Kitui North Constituency parliamentary seat in 1983, but was defeated.
Musyoka stayed in KANU, renewed his parliamentary position and was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
Musyoka became Minister for Foreign Affairs for a second time under President Mwai Kibaki, but in a cabinet reshuffle on June 30, 2004 he was moved to the post of Minister for the Environment.
Musyoka campaigned for the ODM-Kenya ticket, facing a number of other contenders.
Many observers questioned whether the presidential hopefuls of ODM-Kenya, particularly Raila and Musyoka, could unite to support one common candidate for the general election.
In 2010 Musyoka supported the draft constitution in the campaign for August 4th referendum but Members of the campaign team opposing the draft constitution claimed that he was secretly opposing the draft leading to a satirical comparison of Musyoka to a watermelon which is naturally green outside and red inside, the team supporting the draft constitution was represented by color green while the team opposing the draft constitution was represented by the color red hence the " green team " and the " red team ", Musyoka's nickname watermelon was because of his alleged open support for the green team and secret support for the red team.
Occasionally, children were given names that were descriptive of the circumstances under which they were born, " Nduku " ( girl ) and " Mutuku " ( boy ) meaning born at night ," Kioko " ( boy ) born in the morning, " Mumbua / Syombua " ( girl ) and " Wambua " ( boy ) for the time of rain, " Wayua " ( girl ) for the time of famine, " Makau " ( boy ) for the time of war, " Musyoka / Kasyuko / Musyoki " ( boy ) and " Kasyoka / Kasyoki " ( girl ) as a re-incarnation of a dead family member, " Mutua " ( boy ) and " Mutuo / Mwikali " ( girl ) as indicative of the long duration the parents had waited for this child, or a lengthy period of gestation.
Awori, describing Musyoka as " a friend and political son ", said that he believed Musyoka was " equal to the task ", while Musyoka said that he had " deep respect " for Awori, who he called " a true gentleman ".

Musyoka and thus
However, only two years later, in 1985 the Kitui North seat was vacated and Musyoka won subsequent by-elections, thus becoming an MP at the age of 32.

Musyoka and Kibaki
According to official results, Musyoka placed a distant third behind Kibaki and Odinga with 9 % of the vote.
Amid a violent crisis over the results, with supporters of Kibaki and Odinga disputing the outcome, Kibaki appointed Musyoka as Vice-President and Minister of Home Affairs on January 8, 2008.
Musyoka expressed gratitude to Kibaki and, referring to the ongoing dispute and violence, said that he was " intensely aware that the appointment has come at a difficult time when our nation is going through a painful moment ".

Musyoka and Odinga
The ODM-Kenya split into two factions, one gathered around Musyoka and the other around Odinga, in August 2007.

Musyoka and .
Musyoka was reportedly unhappy with President Kibaki's refusal to honour a pre-election Memorandum of understanding ( MOU ) which they had signed with the president's party NAK.
Musyoka was elected by his faction as its presidential candidate on August 31, 2007, receiving 2, 835 votes in a secret ballot against Julia Ojiambo, who received 791 votes.
Musyoka has been quoted as saying "... the war against poverty could not be won unless environmental issues were addressed.
Musyoka launched his presidential campaign at Uhuru Park in Nairobi on October 14, 2007.

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