LOYALTY: Budalang?i MP Ababu Namwamba and ODM leader Raila Odinga during the launch of the Cord Effect campaign on January 29 last year. Photo/File
ODM leader Raila Odinga has wished well all party candidates for various seats ahead of the Friday and Saturday elections. Raila moved to deny having any preferred list of candidates ahead of the elections.
He disclosed that all the candidates cleared by the party’s elections board are qualified for the positions they are vying for. “I therefore have no reason to support a particular candidate. I am fully behind all the contestants as they all belong to the orange family,” he said.
He allayed fears that Budalang’i MP Ababu Namwamba is a mole within ODM party. Odinga described Ababu as one of his fiercest general’s that he cannot afford to lose.
“Ababu is not a mole as some people claim, he is a staunch ODM member and I will stand by him,” Odinga said. He was addressing mourners at a funeral in Vihiga County over the Weekend.
He was accompanied by Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya, Senators Otieno Kajwang’ (Homabay) and George Khaniri (Vihiga), Suna East MP Junet Mohamed and Vihiga County youth leader Ben Ombima.
Ombima said Western region has endorsed Ababu for Secretary General. “We have convened meetings where the region’s delegates have agreed to rally behind Ababu for the Secretary General position.
He said several delegates from Nyanza region have also shown interest in supporting Ababu for the Secretary General position. Odinga said the fiercest campaigns being witnessed in ODM are healthy for the party.
He said it depicts then popularity of ODM across the country. “It is only ODM that has organized such elections. Other parties like TNA, URP and even UDF should conduct their elections if at all they want to be in the league of ODM party,’ he said.
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