A faction led by the party's General Secretary Edwin Sifuna wants to harness the support built by the Gen Z movement (Dispatches 28 July 2025 Sifuna goes rogue as ODM splits deepen)...
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That could encourage ODM's younger leaders including Babu Owino and General Secretary Edwin Sifuna to push for a break with the president (Dispatches 28/7/25 Sifuna goes rogue as ODM splits deepen)...
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ODM Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna one of the main critics of the Ruto pact has repeatedly said that ODM will run its own slate of candidates (AC Vol 66 No 16 Odinga's big tent politics are close to collapse)...
These statements were read to the press by ODM Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna just days after he had publicly declared the pact ‘dead' citing a lack of government commitment...
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Orange Democratic Movement General Secretary Edwin Sifuna has stepped up his attacks on the deal between his party leader Raila Odinga and President William Ruto...
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ODM Secretary-General and Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna leads a populist faction urging Odinga to sever ties with Ruto over police killings and abductions...
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The ODM is still split between its youthful wing – led by party Secretary-General and Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna who bitterly opposes Ruto – and the older guard happy to take government jobs and patronage...
Vol 66 No 7 |
- KENYA
- WHO'S WHO
Edwin Sifuna Secretary-General of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and Senator for Nairobi County has cut a frustrated figure during the political manoeuvring that followed last June's Generation Z-led protests against Kenya's political class...
There will be no formal political coalition between the ODM and Ruto's UDA a detail likely to appease ODM factions led by party Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna whose name is on the Framework Agreement and who have been deeply sceptical about any alliance with Ruto...
Yet a faction in the ODM led by Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna opposes a coalition...