High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mwai Kibaki (born 15 November 1931) is a Kenyan politician and the third President of Kenya. Kibaki was previously Vice President (1978 88). He also held several other cabinet positions, including a widely acclaimed stint as Minister for Finance (1969 - 1981), Minister for Home Affairs (1982 88) and Minister for Health (1988 91). He then served as an opposition Member of Parliament from 1991 up to his election as Kenya's third president in 2002. He was sworn in on 30 December 2007 for his second term as president after controversially emerging winner of a bitterly contested election that was marked by accusations of fraud and widespread irregularities that led to civil unrest.