Gideon Moi

Presidential ambitions

Moi is the leader of KANU political party in Kenya. A favoured son of Kenya's former president, he had been groomed as a presidential candidate by his father. In 2017 general elections, he rallied KANU to support Uhuru Kenyatta for a second term, despite Moi's unease for the candidature which also included his political nemesis, William Samoei Arap Ruto.

Moi had announced his intentions to run in the 2022 Kenyan presidential elections but shelved his ambitions after joining the Azimio One Kenya Alliance led by presidential candidate Raila Odinga and its chairman former president Uhuru Kenyatta. He continued to serve as a senator and Chairman of the Senate ICT Committee in the Senate until 2022. He defended his seat in the 2022 elections but lost to William Cheptumo of UDA.

In October 2024, Moi was appointed as Chairperson of the Commonwealth Secretariat Expert Team to observe the general election in Botswana. The mission’s mandate included examining pre‐election preparations, ballot casting, counting and tabulation, and publishing a final report on the conduct of the polls.

In October 2025, Gideon Moi was nominated by Kenya African National Union (KANU) as the party’s candidate for the forthcoming Baringo County senatorial by-election. The announcement followed “extensive consultations, deliberations and consensus within the party and with the people of Baringo.”