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Article: Kenya's main opposition alliance chooses its presidential candidate
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- September 18, 2002
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Dateline: NAIROBI, Kenya
Kenya's main opposition alliance chose its presidential candidate
Wednesday after many months of public doubt about whether Kenya's
main opposition parties would unite to break the ruling party's 39-
year hold on power.
The leader of the official opposition in parliament, Mwai Kibaki,
was nominated as the National Alliance Party of Kenya presidential
candidate. His running mate is the chairman of the FORD-Kenya opposition
party, Kijana Wamalwa.
Charity Ngilu, who came fifth in the 1997 presidential election making
her Kenya's most successful woman presidential candidate, was nominated
as the alliance's prime ministerial candidate.
"The ...