Apart from Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga and Mining and Blue Economy Cabinet Secretary Hassan Joho most of the establishment ODM leaders who want to remain part of the Ruto government are of pensionable age...
An ODM Central Committee meeting in July – called to address divisions between Mining and Cooperatives Cabinet Secretaries Hassan Joho and Wycliffe Oparanya both former deputy party leaders and ODM Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna – concluded that it would field candidates in the parliamentary gubernatorial and county elections but did not mention the presidency (AC Vol 66 No 16 Odinga's big tent politics are close to collapse)...
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ODM's bigwigs such as Treasury and Mining cabinet secretaries John Mbadi and Hassan Joho want to stay in government and give Ruto a second term in August 2027 then ride on his coat tails...
Along the Coast region stalwarts in the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) – founded by Odinga led locally by Mining and Blue Economy Cabinet Secretary Hassan Joho a former governor of Mombasa – claim the Raila-Ruto pact has boosted the region's political representation...
Mining Cabinet Secretary Ali Hassan Joho is among those touted as Ruto's running mate...
Mining Cabinet Secretary Ali Hassan Joho is among those touted as Ruto's running mate...
With ODM deputy leaders Hassan Ali Joho and Wycliffe Oparanya in government and reluctant to relinquish their ministries interim ODM leader Peter Anyang' Nyong'o will stay In position to maintain party unity in the short term...
In the aftermath of Gen Z protests that occupied Parliament ODM deputy leader Hassan Joho remarked that he had ‘never seen a liar corrupt and tribal person like [President William] Ruto'...
Odinga's deputies former Mombasa governor Hassan Joho and Kakamega governor Wycliffe Oparanya who had signalled their intentions to succeed Odinga when his retirement from national politics was mooted in March are both now cabinet ministers (AC Vol 65 No 8 The battle for Odinga's ODM)...
Odinga's two deputy leaders Wycliffe Oparanya and Hassan Joho are both now in cabinet as is Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi who had previously been ODM's national chairman...
Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga is in power if not in office after four members of his Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) including party chair John Mbadi now Finance Minister and Odinga's two deputies Hassan Joho and Wycliffe Oparanya were brought into William Ruto's unofficial unity government in July with Mbadi as Cabinet Treasury Secretary (AC Vol 65 No 16 Raila names his price)...
Though Odinga has not taken a formal job himself – suggesting that he is still serious about his campaign to become chair of the African Union Commission next February – the two deputy leaders of his Orange Democratic Movement Hassan Joho and Wycliffe Oparanya have both joined Ruto's cabinet taking the mining and small business portfolios respectively...