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ODM is suffering from serious leadership and ideological paucity

ODM party leader Oburu Oginga and other officials during the party’s consultative meeting at Malaba border in Busia county on January 17, 2026.  [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party leader Oburu Oginga is yet to demonstrate aptitude to successfully lead the party except to self immolation. He appears indecisive and totally detached from the reality that is facing the party that his brother, Raila Odinga, painstakingly built.

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