Siaya Senator Oburu Odinga has lashed out at Governor James Orengo over his repeated attacks on President William Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza administration, exposing simmering tensions within the ODM party over its cooperation with the government.
Speaking in Suna East constituency where he accompanied President Ruto for an interdenominational service, the Siaya senator stressed that ODM’s engagement with the Kenya Kwanza government is a collective party decision anchored on a ten-point agreement, not personal ambition, aimed squarely at delivering services to Kenyans.
“Your Excellency is that we are in broad based government, not as individual members of parliament, and not as individual senators. We are here there, in this broad based government as a result of a resolution of our party, ODM and the party signed a 10 point agreement with the government,”said Oburu.
He urged Governor Orengo to step down from ODM if he no longer supports the party’s decision to work with the Kenya Kwanza administration, arguing that continued criticism from within undermines the party’s unity and amounts to internal sabotage.
“Those who are annoyed, who think that this broad based government is not right. They are actually vomiting on us from within. Why don’t they get out and vomit from our without? Because we want our our party ODM, to have a nice smell, and we want to move on with our people,” the Siaya Senator stated.
Governor Orengo has been criticizing the Kenya Kwanza administration and has kept on poking holes in the broad-based government arrangement with ODM.
