ODM’s ‘internal bleeding’ jolts its fight for life but leaders hopeful

ODM candidate in Embakasi South by-election Irshad Sumra with party Secretary General Edwin Sifuna address the press at Mukuru educational poling centre on April 5. [File, Standard]

After 14 years of existence and dominance, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) seems to be at a crossroads as it battles dwindling popularity.

The losses in recent by-elections in Ugenya and Embakasi South constituencies as well as the withdrawal of ODM’scandidate in the upcoming Wajir West mini poll, have exposed the party’s soft underbelly.