Oburu is from well known Odinga political family, his brother Raila Odinga was second in the Presidential elections of December 2007 and March 2013.
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His late father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga was a prominent politician at the time of independence, serving as Kenya's first vice-president.
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenya's first vice-president and later opposition leader.
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Raila Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya, son of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga
Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi (born on 21 September 1960,Sabatia, Vihiga District) is a Kenyan politician, formerly serving as Deputy Prime Minister and was an unsuccessful presidential hopeful under the United Democratic Forum Party (UDF) after decamping from the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) led by the prime minister Raila Odinga where before his resignation he served as the Deputy party leader.He was third placed in the Kenyan general election 2013.
The outcome of that referendum, in which the draft constitution was rejected, signalled a wider re-alignment before the 2007 elections, in which the No team reorganised itself as the Orange Democratic Movement with Raila Odinga as their presidential flag bearer whilst those in the Yes team ended up in several political parties including the Party of National Unity (Kenya).