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Honour or bribery? Questions abound Ruto's nomination of Ida

Dr Ida Odinga. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Former ODM leader Raila Odinga’s spouse, Canon Ida Odinga, has found herself in the thick of President William  Ruto’s snatch-and-grab strategy as he seeks to secure a firm grip on her now-deceased husband’s political constituency.

Given the authority that Ida commands both within the Odinga family and the wider Jaramogi family, pundits suggest Ruto plans to ensure she steadies the ODM ship, which has recently been tottering amid acrimonious factional rifts. 

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