Mudavadi biography

Overview

Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi (born 21 September ) is a Kenyan politician and land economist who is currently serving as the Prime Cabinet Secretary of Kenya. Until October , he was also the party leader of the Amani National Congress (ANC), one of the founding political parties, of the Kenya Kwanza alliance. He served as the 7th Vice-President of Kenya in and Deputy Prime Minister (–), when he resigned to contest for the Presidency in the Kenyan general election and emerged third. He was the deputy party leader of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) (–) and Party Leader of the United Democratic Forum Party (UDF) from May to July

Mudavadi, was raised in a Quaker Christian denomination family. He is of the ethnic Maragoli dialect, an extract of the populous Luhya community of western Kenya. After his late father Moses S. B. Mudavadi, he is the only other Kenyan politician who does not swear oaths of office because his faith forbids it. Mudavadi schooled at Nairobi Primary