Most notably Homa Bay's John Mbadi takes the Treasury a reward for Odinga's Luo community while Opiyo Wandayi gets the energy ministry (AC Vol 59 No 19 Populists hack at the budget)...
ODM's director of political operations Opiyo Wandayi Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna and Nairobi MP Babu Owino are also potential candidates...
A bipartisan bill sponsored by Kenya Kwanza majority leader Kimani Ichung'wa and Azimio la Umoja counterpart Opiyo Wandayi is proposing an audit of the elections after every general election a reform of the composition of the IEBC board and the way board members are selected...
Ruto's ruling Kenya Kwanza will be led by Ichung'wa alongside Cecily Mbarire Senator Aaron Cheruiyot Hassan Omar Hassan and Catherine Wambilianga; while the opposition will be represented by Wiper leader Musyoka Opiyo Wandayi Amina Mnyazi Eugene Wamalwa and Senator Mogeni Erick Okong'o...
ManoeuvresEarlier this month the opposition leader's brother Oburu Odinga hinted that he would retire touting National Assembly Minority Leader Opiyo Wandayi as the heir apparent for Odinga's Luo community from Nyanza Province...
Reports that a cross-party committee in the National Assembly had already agreed to create the two offices have been played down by National Assembly Minority Leader Opiyo Wandayi...
Meanwhile Opiyo Wandayi who authored a parliamentary report calling for reform of the IEBC and now leads Odinga's faction in the National Assembly has called for Chebukati Guliye and Molu to be placed on leave in order for the process to replace them to take place 'without interference'...
The recommendations in the Public Accounts committee report authored by Opiyo Wandayi following a parliamentary probe in 2019 for root and branch reform of the IEBC were not acted upon in large part because the 'handshake' duo President Kenyatta and Odinga had been expected to win the elections (AC Vol 60 No 13 'Rot' in the Commission)...
The young turks in the ODM include controversial Embakasi East MP Babu Owino and Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi who was picked majority leader in the National Assembly...
The recommendations made in 2019 by the parliament's Public Accounts Committee chaired by Opiyo Wandayi a deputy from Odinga's ODM demanding the wholesale dismissal of senior officials and commissioners at the IEBC were largely ignored (AC Vol 60 No 13 'Rot' in the Commission)...
Indicting the Commission in 2019 parliament's Public Accounts Committee chaired by the Orange Democratic Movement's Opiyo Wandayi recommended the wholesale dismissal of senior officials and commissioners at the IEBC involved in the 2017 debacle (AC Vol 60 No 13 'Rot' in the Commission)...
Speculators and wheeler-dealers had a field day as internal controls where they existed failed or were made to fail spectacularly ' wrote the PAC chair Opiyo Wandayi an MP for Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)...