ODM rivalry spills over into referendum

ODM leader Raila Odinga.

Kenya: Fresh infighting has erupted in former Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) that could distract the party from the CORD coalition’s push for a referendum.

Factional wars linked to the abortive party elections that had gone underground re-emerged as rivals engaged in bare-knuckled exchanges. Budalang’i MP Ababu Namwamba lit the fuse on the latest feud when he claimed that Raila had no moral authority to lead referendum campaigns that malign the credibility of the electoral commission yet his Orange party failed to hold credible polls.