The allegations of land grabbing that soon followed saw him fall out with some of his closest allies including Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, his vice president. With Jaramogi went the politically powerful Luo community. Similar ideological differences truncated the career of another vice-president, Joseph Murumbi and others such as Bildad Kaggia. After Kenyatta’s death, Moi facilitated Jaramogi’s political rehabilitation, even appointing him to chair of the Cotton Lint and Seed Marketing Board. Jaramogi, while speaking at a function in Mombasa, reiterated that his fall out with Jomo Kenyatta in the 1960s had much to do with the latter’s land-grabbing.
Mawaziri wale wale ambao chini ya Kikwete walikuwa wenyewe “mizigo”, kwa mujibu wa tathmini ya Katibu Mkuu wa CCM Abdulrahman Kinana, hivi leo wamegeuka kuwa “watumbuaji majipu” wakubwa, akiwemo Waziri Mkuu Kassim Majaaliwa. Katibu Mkuu Kiongozi, Ombeni Sefue, ambaye daima alikuwa mwanadiplomasia tu wa Ikulu akifunikwa hata na Salva Rweyemamu, ghafla moja amegeuka kuwa sauti kali ya kutisha ambaye akitokeza mbele ya waandishi wa habari (na hujitokeza mara kwa mara), basi ujuwe kuna “jipu” limeshatumbuliwa.