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ODM will win the Kibra by-Election, Eliud Owalo is a cheap flower-girl

ODM will win the Kibra by-Election, Eliud Owalo is a cheap flower-girl

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Eliud Owalo will contest Kibra by-election on an ANC party ticket.

And with this, the Asembo-born management consultant secured a seat at the table of one of the country’s most popular politician.

He moved from the lobby group to head Raila’s 2013 Presidential Campaign serving as Head of the CORD Presidential Campaign Secretariat and Chief Campaign Manager to former Prime Minister where he embezzled funds.
Owalo fell out with Raila during the ODM primaries for Kibra at the 2017 elections and is now the candidate of Musalia Mudavadi’s ANC party.

As a management consultant, Owalo is currently practising as the Managing Consultant of Eliud & Associates (E&A) Management Consultants, an international consultancy firm.
Owalo, a father of three married to Jacqueline Muga, served as a Student leader at St. Mary’s School, Yala during his A- Level studies.
He subsequently got actively involved in student politics during his undergraduate studies at Kenyatta University.
He holds a Degree in Economics from Kenyatta University and an MBA from the University of Nairobi.

Through FORA, Owalo and his colleagues kicked off a journey to deliver 10 million votes for Raila in the 2013 election which he failed after squandering resources.

Raila got just slightly above half (5,340,546) the target against Uhuru Kenyatta’s 6,173,433 sending the opposition to the Supreme Court seeking nullification of the TNA candidate’s win.

After losing the petition against Raila, Owalo continued to work within Raila’s circles but not without controversy.

He eventually fell out with Raila in the run-up to the 2017 elections after he failed to get the ODM ticket to contest for the Kibra Parliamentary seat, which was won by the late Ken Okoth.

Owalo, who found his name missing in the ODM register, blamed Raila for his loss in the ODM nominations and accused him of having “parochial political interests” in the area.

Last month, Owalo announced his resignation from ODM saying his “political ideology, convictions and belief” are no longer in line with those of the party.

“It is with great regret that I write to inform you that I have with immediate effect relinquished my membership of the Orange Democratic Movement Party (ODM).
“My resignation is informed by the fact that my political ideology, convictions and belief no longer has convergence or depict any congruence and common denominator with that of the ODM Party; its value-orientation and practices,” said Owalo in a letter addressed to ODM and the registrar of political parties.

After announcing his resignation from ODM, Owalo jumped ship to the Musalia Mudavadi-led party where he clinched the party ticket in no contest.

In 2013, Owalo was summoned to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations accused of plans to destabilise the government.

The 11 allegations include mobilising youths to cause civil disobedience and chaos, using youths in slums for an alternative force and provoking police to cause a commotion.

In 2014, Owalo was involved in vicious power wars with some ODM MPs including the party’s then secretary general Ababu Namwamba and former Gem MP Jakoyo Midiwo.

Raila was forced to intervene severally to save his party from disintegration.

Owalo will now face ODM’s Imran Okoth among others for the seat which was left vacant after the death Ken Okoth who succumbed to cancer.

IEBC has scheduled the by-election for November 7, 2019.

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