Unlike most of the remaining politicians who have hooked their entrance into politics on their alleged desire to introduce better leadership, Kisumu Governor Anyang' Nyong'o's is a very different narrative.
Instead, his main reason to venture into the political scene in the 1980s was to contribute to a movement that could lead to the collapse of the Nyayo Era.
In an interview on September 2013, then the Senator of Kisumu, Nyong'o said that he was tired of watching from the touchline as President Daniel Moi's leadership misled the nation.
"Some of us were drawn into politics by the authoritarianism of the post-independent state. There was nobody in KANU to tell the king that he was naked.
"We decided to sacrifice and so after the 1982 coup attempt I went into exile in Mexico," he told Daily Nation reporters.
The heavily educated county boss was coming from the classes where he served as a professor at the University of Nairobi.
He made his first political breakthrough in 1998 as a nominated lawmaker, a position he held until the end of that political season in 2002.
This is the same year when Moi was forced into retirement after failing to defeat a massive opposition union led by Mwai Kibaki who would become President and opposition chief Raila Odinga.
In December 2002, he was elected on the ruling NARC party ticket, and has remained vocal ever since, earning himself a slot and one of the nation's most respected leaders.
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