Sifuna and Osotsi missing as ODM leaders hold meeting
ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna and Deputy Party Leader Godfrey Osotsi were no show as the ODM party held a leaders' consultative meeting
ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna and Deputy Party Leader Godfrey Osotsi were no show as the ODM party held a leaders’ consultative meeting on Monday, January 12.
Photos shared by the party on social media, the notable absence of two key party officials raised eyebrows among ODM members and Kenyans at large during what was a crucial consultative forum.
In a statement accompanying the photos, the party emphasized its commitment to building a strong movement and making ODM stronger and united going into the future.
Among those present were Deputy Party Leader and Mombasa Governor Abdulswamad Nassir, Party Chairperson Gladys Wanga, Deputy Party Leader Simba Arati, and Party Director of Campaigns and Suna East MP Junet Mohamed, alongside other party officials.
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However, the conspicuous absence of Sifuna, who serves as the party’s Secretary-General, and Osotsi, the third Deputy Party Leader, has sparked widespread speculation about the state of unity within the Orange Democratic Party.
The missing leaders’ absence comes against a backdrop of escalating tensions within ODM.
At the centre of the discord is a disagreement over the party’s strategic direction: whether to align with or oppose the government following a bilateral agreement signed during the tenure of the late former party leader, Raila Odinga, which brought ODM into a broad-based government arrangement.
The internal strife has been particularly evident in the relationship between top party officials, with Sifuna and Junet engaged in a series of public disagreements that have exposed the fault lines within the party’s leadership.
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