Claim: In the 2007 Kenyan general election, Mwai Kibaki (a Kenyan politician who was the third President of Kenya) ran for re-election, later announcing that he would run as the candidate of a new alliance called the Party of National Unity.
Evidence: (born 15 November 1931) is a Kenyan politician who was the third President of Kenya, serving from December 2002 until April 2013. On 26 January 2007, President Kibaki declared his intention of running for re-election in the 2007 presidential election. On 16 September 2007, Kibaki announced that he would stand as the candidate of a new alliance incorporating all the parties who supported his re-election, called the Party of National Unity.