My government will respect the will of the people.

He also as the political circumstances of the time dictated projected himself as a loyal stalwart of the ruling single party KANU. Though supported by Kibaki some members of his own cabinet mainly from the LDP wing led by Raila Odinga and the main opposition party KANU mobilised a powerful NO campaign that resulted in a majority of 58% Kenyan voters rejecting the draft. The telecommunications sector is booming.

After resigning as a cabinet minister in 1991 Kibaki served as an opposition Member of Parliament from 1991 up to his election in 2002 after two unsuccessful bids for the presidency in 1992 and 1997. He was elected to a second five-year term in December 2007 after controversially emerging as the winner of a highly contested election versus Raila Odinga who was later named Prime Minister in a coalition government. H.