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)...
In June he nixed an EACC charge sheet against Wycliffe Oparanya the former deputy leader of Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement who was one of four ODM leaders to be appointed to Ruto's cabinet in July (AC Vol 65 No 18 The Ruto-Raila trade-off redraws the electoral map)...
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...
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Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement is believed to have been offered five cabinet posts with deputy party leaders Hassan Joho and Wycliffe Oparanya being touted for jobs though ODM's James Orengo a long-time Odinga ally has described joining Ruto as ‘a disaster' and ‘an abomination' adding that ‘the President has lost the confidence of the international community'...
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The two early frontrunners for the ODM leadership are Ali Hassan Joho and Wycliffe Oparanya both deputy party leaders and former governors of Mombasa and Kakamega respectively who will be looking to get their allies into ODM leadership positions...
Now the race to succeed Odinga as ODM leader is shaping up as a straight fight between second-tier politicians: his two deputy leaders former Mombasa governor Hassan Joho and former Kakamega governor Wycliffe Oparanya...
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Its largest party is still Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement whose deputy leader Wycliffe Oparanya has hinted that he should get the Opposition leader post insisting that 'the decision should be based on numbers in Parliament'...
This prompted Wycliffe Oparanya deputy leader of Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement to complain at the refusal of Musyoka and Karua to attend anti-government protests...