Michael Kijana Wamalwa from power. Mwai Kibaki was elected president and in turn rewarded Mr Wamalwa Kijana as his vice president in line with his contribution to his presidential win. In late 2002, during the election campaign, Mwai Kibaki was seriously injured in a car accident and was flown to London for treatment. There he was visited by Wamalwa, who also fell ill and had to be treated, supposedly for kidney problems. This was apparently the forerunner of further illness because he was taken ill again in mid-2003 and was once again treated in London. He briefly recovered, and returned to Kenya to
Mwai Kibaki and Tony Githinji. They also have four grandchildren: Joy Jamie Marie, Mwai Junior, Krystinaa Muthoni. Jimmy Kibaki did have, so far unsuccessful, designs to be his father's political heir. In 2004, the media reported that Kibaki has a second spouse, whom he allegedly married under customary law, Mary Wambui, and a daughter, Wangui Mwai. State House in response released an unsigned statement that Kibaki's only immediate family at the time was his then wife, Lucy, and their four children. In 2009, Kibaki, with Lucy in close attendance, held an odd press conference to re-state publicly that he only has one