This past week, party adherents were surprised to to see Senator James Orengo being heralded as a star of a top ODM Committee meeting . The Orengo circus started when Raila Odinga, fresh from an extensive Christmas break, chaired his first political meeting of the year of the ODM Central Management Committee. The Siaya Senator […]
Revisiting the bitter history of James Orengo betraying and backstabbing Raila Odinga
Orengo is always lurking in the shadows wherever Raila Odinga is The history of James Orengo and Raila Odinga is not chequered. It is has been a one sided relationship designed to benefit only one man and his commercial interests. In the 1990s, Orengo triggered Raila’s first defection from Ford-K to NDP when he opposed […]
Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi’s tour of Nyanza sends senator Orengo, Gumbo into panic
Fast rising Public Accounts Committee Chairman and top Raila loyalist Hon Opiyo Wandayi has come under increasing pressure to declare his interest in the coveted Siaya Gubernatorial post. The development conscious Ugunja MP faced a barrage of calls to gun for the governor’s seat during a recent whirlwind woking tour of his constituency and the […]
THOUSANDS apply for ODM ticket, many shy for key posts
Over ten thousand people have applied to contest various posts in this year’s general election on the ODM ticket, sources within ODM have confirmed. The party’s National Elections Board (NEB) chaired by East Africa Legislative Assembly MP Judy Pareno extended the application time till tomorrow with civil servants given until February to apply. Many civil servants […]