{"id":127537,"date":"2025-12-29T10:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/odm-uda-deal-in-january-raila-party-seeks-early-union-with-ruto\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:08:05","slug":"odm-uda-deal-in-january-raila-party-seeks-early-union-with-ruto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/odm-uda-deal-in-january-raila-party-seeks-early-union-with-ruto\/","title":{"rendered":"ODM-UDA deal in January: Raila party seeks early union with Ruto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 29 \u2014 A top Orange Party official has signaled an early ODM-UDA pre-election coalition ahead of the 2027 General Election AMID .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mombasa Governor Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir, serving as Deputy Party Leader, said the proposal is grounded in a sober assessment of the political landscape, the balance of power, and the strategic options available to safeguard the party\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeadership sometimes requires making hard, pragmatic choices guided by a clear reading of reality,\u201d Nassir said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am calling on my colleagues within the ODM party to consider formalisation of a pre-election coalition with the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) in good faith ahead of the 2027 elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the need for strategic partnerships over political posturing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeyond the implementation of the 10-Point Agenda, politics is about choices. We must choose engagement over perpetual confrontation, strategy over sentiment, and outcomes over slogans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He called for a central committee meeting in January to ratify the proposed coalition pact with President William Ruto\u2019s UDA.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Impending \u2018war\u2019 <\/h2>\n<p>His remarks come as ODM struggles to overcome factional wars following the death of its founding leader, former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, in October.<\/p>\n<p>Two factions: one advocating for a deeper partnership with UDA, and another seeking to preserve Odinga\u2019s legacy and maintain political independence have grown increasingly vocal fueling further division. <\/p>\n<p>The latter faction is led by ODM Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna, Saboti MP Caleb Amisi, Embakasi East MP Babu Owino, and Siaya Governor James Orengo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2025\/12\/will-sifuna-survive-2026-odm-pressure\/\">Edwin Sifuna faces purge in 2026?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sifuna-led camp maintains that the current ODM\u2013UDA cooperation agreement expires in 2027, after which the party would be free to chart its own course, including potentially fielding a presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, ODM Party Chairperson and Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga, a supporter of the ODM\u2013UDA pact, accused former President Uhuru Kenyatta of using party insiders to undermine ODM.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Minority Whip Junet Mohamed alleged external interference in party affairs, warning that January would mark a \u201cwar\u201d to expel what he termed party rebels.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 29 \u2014 A top Orange Party official has signaled an early ODM-UDA pre-election coalition ahead of the 2027 General Election AMID . Mombasa Governor Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir, serving as Deputy Party Leader, said the proposal is grounded in a sober assessment of the political landscape, the balance of power, and the strategic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}