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Kenya's Moi faces party rebellion
NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi faces a boycott and a possible breakaway by key party members over the choice of his successor. A number of ruling KANU party politicians, who have formed the Rainbow Alliance, are to boycott a party convention on Monday which is to select a presidential candidate because of fears that the choice will be "fixed." Instead the rebel members will host a public rally in Nairobi's central park. Rebel members, including Professor George Saitoti, Kalonzo Musyoka and Raila Odinga, are suspicious over Moi's preferred candidate, local government minister Uhuru Kenyatta. In a statement they said they had no confidence Moi would allow delegates from the ruling party to fairly select a new presidential candidate. Moi, they said, had displayed open bias towards 40 year-old Kenyatta, son of Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta. The Alliance said it will announce its next course of action at Monday's rally. Gor Sungu, a member of Kenya's parliament who supports the Alliance, said it was likely the three top politicians would split from the ruling party, forming another party. They might also forge ties with Kenyan opposition parties to challenge Kenyatta at general elections, due late this year or early next. -- By CNN's Nairobi Bureau Chief Catherine Bond.
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