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Billions at stake: Why leaders are fighting viciously to succeed Raila

The late ODM Party Leader Raila Odinga. [File, Standard]

The fight for the soul of the late Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) may appear, on the surface, to be a scramble to inherit his vast political following. Beneath it, however, lies a discreet but deepening war over control of the party’s vast financial empire.

The Sunday Standard has established that the financial muscle of the 20-year-old party — alongside control of its entrenched structures — has become a major flashpoint in a supremacy struggle that now threatens to tear ODM apart.

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