Following the 1966 fallout between the country's first president Jomo Kenyatta and his Vice Jaramogi Oginga, Oginga was soon after thrown into the political cold, with forces close to the President ensuring that he remains there.
This was a successful scheme reportedly hatched by members of the Mount Kenya Mafia who feared that he would succeed the President.
They went ahead to feed the President with anti-Oginga lies to erode the initial good relationship between the duo, including claims that he was planning to overthrow Kenyatta's government.
The same would be the case when President Daniel Moi took over after Kenyatta's death in 1978.
The anti-Oginga camp was this time being led by Attorney General Charles Njonjo, who championed for his permanent banishment from politics.
But one man from the same region stood on the embattled opposition figures side, former President and Moi's Vice President Mwai Kibaki, who owes the first stages of his political career to Oginga.
During a meeting with future Ugandan President Milton Obote in Nairobi earlier, Oginga was so impressed with his Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) manifesto.
Obote, however, notified him that it was actually done by Kibaki, then a lecturer at the Makerere University.
Oginga would later travel to Uganda and talk Kibaki into joining politics, and when he finally accepted the offer, Oginga rallied his support behind him to enable Kibaki win the Donholm Constituency seat (Bahati), whose majority voters then hailed from Oginga's Luo Nyanza bedrock.
When Moi decided to rehabilitate Oginga in 1981, appointing him to the Cotton and Lint Board, Njonjo's team was at it again, this time using a Kericho politician to mislead him into attacking Jomo Kenyatta, Moi's predecessor.
Moi reacted by taking away his intended backing of Oginga for the Bondo parliamentary seat and facilitating a continuation of his woes.
However, all this time Kibaki was trying to intervene for Moi to lift the ban on Oginga, subjecting him to attacks from Njonjo's quarters.
He, among others, noted that Oginga was only becoming stronger with the increased mistreatment heaped on him, adding that his energy would be better if utilized by the nation.
Oginga would later in 1992 make a comeback in politics, and though his presidential bid was unsuccessful, appearing fourth, he regained his Bondo seat which he held until his death in 1994.
Kibaki later switched for his Othaya homeland parliamentary seat when the majority Luo voters in Bahati constituency shifted loyalty to Jael Mbogo.
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