When did Mwai Kibaki became president? How long was Kibaki president?

Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki better known as Mwai Kibaki was a Kenyan politician who served as the third President of Kenya from December 2002 until April 2013. Mwai was president for 11 years.

Mwai had previously served as Kenya’s fourth Vice-President from 1978 to 1988, under President Daniel Arap Moi. He also held cabinet ministerial positions in the Kenyatta and Moi governments, including Finance Minister (1969–1981) under Kenyatta, Home Affairs Minister (1982–1988), and Health Minister (1988–1991) under Moi.

Kibaki was a member of the opposition in the Kenyan parliament from 1992 to 2002. He ran unsuccessfully for president in 1992 and 1997. From 1998 to 2002, he was the Leader of the Official Opposition in Parliament. He was elected President of Kenya in the 2002 presidential election.

President Kibaki’s conduct was that of a low-key, publicity-averse technocrat who was also highly intelligent and competent.

Unlike his predecessors, he never attempted to establish a personality cult; he never had his portrait on every unit of Kenyan currency; he never had all manner of streets, places, and institutions named after him.

President Kibaki never had state-sanctioned praise songs composed in his honour; he never dominated news bulletins with reports of his presidential activities – however routine or mundane, and he never engaged in the populist sloganeering of his predecessors.