His niece Winnie Odinga appears to have ended months of family feuding by backing Oburu's leadership and plotting her own path to ODM's mainstream...
Winnie Odinga was the only prominent member of the Linda Mwananchi faction not to attend the gathering at Ufungamano – a building with historical significance having hosted civil society groups during Kenya's transition to multi-party democracy in the 1990s...
At a press conference on 12 February Owino flanked by Orengo Vihiga Senator Godfrey Osotsi and Winnie Odinga told journalists that Sifuna's ouster broke the party's statutes and that ‘war has been declared'...
Though the ODM is still split on this question with a faction including Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna and Raila's daughter Winnie Odinga insisting that ODM should end its cooperation with Ruto and run its own presidential candidate in 2027 interim leader Oburu Odinga has been mandated to hold coalition talks with Ruto (AC Vol 67 No 2 NEWSMAKER: Oburu Odinga awkward caretaker)...
Winnie Odinga claims that this urgency is in part because the 10-point agenda signed by the late Raila Odinga who died last October and Ruto on 7 March last year to formalise the unity government was only binding for one year (AC Vol 66 No 6 Ex-rivals Ruto and Odinga tussle for power in new alliance & Vol 66 No 21 Opposition colossus Odinga dies leaving succession crisis)...
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Her daughter Winnie Odinga currently a member of the East African Community's assembly is eyeing a seat in Nairobi and is among the youthful ODM wing who oppose Ruto want the party to run its own slate of candidates in 2027 and are demanding a National Delegates' Conference to decide on the party's next steps (AC Vol 66 No 22 Ruto goes west as ODM ponders life after Raila)...
Raila's daughter Winnie Odinga who is positioning herself for a National Assembly seat in 2027 has contradicted her uncle by demanding a national delegates' conference and an ODM presidential candidate for 2027...
Raila's youngest daughter Winnie Odinga who expects to be parachuted into the National Assembly at the 2027 election described the de facto coalition between ODM and Ruto's United Democratic Alliance as ‘complicated' (AC Vol 66 No 22 Ruto goes west as ODM ponders life after Raila)...
Winnie Odinga the couple's fourth child gave an impressive speech at her father's funeral and wants to enter domestic politics...
Speculation at the time was that Odinga was thinking about 2022 and a possible ticket of Gideon Moi and his daughter Winnie Odinga to garner the Kalenjin and Luo vote...