The group includes Siaya governor James Orengo a close ally of ODM founder the late Raila Odinga Nairobi senator Edwin Sifuna and Embakasi East MP Babu Owino...
Yet veteran contender Musyoka appears determined to stand again having backed ODM leader Raila Odinga in 2013 2017 and 2022...
Even a year ago few would have imagined that Kisumu Kenya's main port city on Lake Victoria and late opposition leader Raila Odinga's fiefdom for four decades would host a rally of more than 10 000 people for President William Ruto...
When Ruto co-opted five ODM members into his cabinet as part of a de facto coalition deal with Raila Odinga in July 2024 he shrewdly gave them key spending ministries where they would have to make unpopular decisions...
Ruto is still haunted by the national protests in 2024 which wrongfooted him pushed him to drop the finance bill and form a de facto coalition with the late Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (AC Vol 65 No 14 Youth revolt wins after Ruto scraps finance bill and pledges talks)...
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2% for Raila Odinga over Ruto in the 2022 presidential election the UDA's David Keter was comfortably elected with more than 18 000 votes in the Emurua Dikirr constituency by-election (AC Vol 66 No 24 Ruto holds the parties together)...
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The SDC held at the Jamhuri Sports Ground in Nairobi was a success for Oburu Odinga the interim leader of ODM since the death of his brother the party's founder Raila Odinga last October...
Those at the rival meeting – including Embakasi MP Babu Owino; Siaya Governor James Orengo one of Raila Odinga's closest allies; and Suba South MP Caroli Omondi Secretary-General of the Azimio la Umoja coalition that backed Raila's 2022 presidential bid – stated that they recognised Oburu as ‘an elder but not the leader'...
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One of Kenyatta's closest allies Tuju offered ‘a reward' in exchange for Chebukati calling a run-off between Ruto and Raila Odinga Kenyatta's favoured candidate or declaring Odinga the winner (AC Vol 64 No 3 Electoral Commission goes on trial again)...
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At a joint parliamentary meeting on 10 March three days after the anniversary of the 10-point Memorandum of Understanding signed by Ruto and the late Raila Odinga Ruto said that having stabilised the country after the 2024 protests the UDA-ODM government would shift from crisis management to ‘a long-term legislative and developmental roadmap'...
Case in point say critics was the decision by leaders to elect Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf as Chair of the AU Commission in February 2025 over Raila Odinga...
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The KIEMS kits were at the centre of claims by defeated candidate Raila Odinga that Ruto's team had rigged the results by accessing the elections database (AC Vol 65 No 25 New alliances on shaky ground & Vol 63 No 16 Questions about the electoral referee)...
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ODM founder Raila Odinga who died last October had kept the party's rival factions from open conflict (AC Vol 66 No 21 Opposition colossus Odinga dies leaving succession crisis)...
Sifuna together with Siaya Governor James Orengo – one of Raila Odinga's oldest allies – and Nairobi MP Babu Owino has held a series of rallies in recent weeks under the banner Linda Mwananchi (‘Protect the Citizens') fuelling speculation that they and other ODM dissidents plan to form a breakaway party...
