Orange Democratic Movement party leader Raila Odinga on Tuesday held a closed-door meeting with Democratic Party of Kenya (DP) leaders at his Capitol Hill offices.
The Democratic Party was formed in 1992 during the fight for pluralism with former President Mwai Kibaki serving as party leader. He contested and emerged third.
Although the meeting reportedly lasted for two hours, the agenda was not immediately disclosed. Raila has, however, been meeting various teams at his office.
"H.E Raila Odinga met Party leader of the Democratic Party of Kenya (DP) Joseph Munyao who was accompanied by National Chair Essau Kioni and Lawrence Kariuki at Capitol Hill Square," wrote Philip Nyamai, an operative at Raila's office.
In 1997, DP's Kibaki emerged second, narrowly losing to retired President Daniel Moi. Raila was third on his National Development Party.
During the 2002 polls, Raila, then with LDP, made a coalition with DP and forked Narc. The coalition went on to form the government.
However, in 2007, Kibaki quit DP to form PNU while Odinga left LDP for ODM, which he has managed to sustain for a decade.
Raila is seeking support from major parties ahead of the much anticipated BBI referendum, a move which aims at suppressing opposing camps.
“The plan by the two was to have all political players and leaders join hands and back the referendum so that Kenyans could have constitutional change via consensus, but the reality is that Deputy President William Ruto’s allies have shown lukewarm support for the BBI and could lead opposition to it,” a source close President Kenyatta and Raila said.
He added: “The political class was to take the BBI referendum push jointly to the people for ratification. Mr Kenyatta’s and Mr Odinga’s advisers felt that if the two worked together the other political class would play ball.”