Editing Mwai Kibaki (section)

===First term health issues===
It is widely acknowledged that age and the 2002 accident denied the country the witty, sporty, eloquent Kibaki of the previous years. A man who could make lengthy and flowery contributions on the floor of Parliament without notes was confined to reading speeches at every forum.<ref name="nation">{{cite web|url=http://www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/Its-a-mixed-bag-of-fortunes-as-Kibaki-heads-off-to-retirement/-/1064/1741314/-/au5cgnz/-/index.html|title=It's a mixed bag of fortunes as Kibaki heads off to retirement - Daily Nation|publisher=nation.co.ke|access-date=28 July 2016}}</ref>

In late January 2003, it was announced that the President had been admitted to [[Nairobi Hospital]] to have a blood clot– the after-effect of his car accident– removed from his leg. He came out of hospital and addressed the public outside the hospital on TV in a visibly incoherent manner, and speculation after that was that he had suffered a stroke, his second, the first being said to have occurred sometimes in the 1970s.<ref name="nation1">{{cite news|url=http://www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/-/1064/531642/-/item/0/-/a8f3q1z/-/index.html|title=Kibaki's failing health put on hold all pledges he had made|work=Daily Nation|access-date=1 June 2010|archive-date=12 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312070326/http://www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/-/1064/531642/-/item/0/-/a8f3q1z/-/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> His subsequent ill health greatly diminished his performance during his first term and the affairs of government during that time are said to have been largely run by a group of loyal aides, both in and out of government.<ref name="nation1"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nairobichronicle.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/assertive-kibaki-suprises-kenyans/|title=Assertive Kibaki {{sic|sup|rises|nolink=y}} Kenyans|work=The Nairobi Chronicle|date=23 March 2009|access-date=1 June 2010}}</ref> Kibaki did not seem well, for instance, when he appeared live on TV on 25 September 2003 to appoint [[Moody Awori]] Vice President after the death<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3176177.stm|title=Kenya's vice-president dies|publisher=BBC News|date=23 August 2003|access-date=1 June 2010}}</ref> in office of Vice President, [[Michael Wamalwa Kijana]].