{"id":132371,"date":"2026-02-27T07:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/tribunal-extends-orders-barring-sifunas-removal-as-odm-sg\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:02:46","slug":"tribunal-extends-orders-barring-sifunas-removal-as-odm-sg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/tribunal-extends-orders-barring-sifunas-removal-as-odm-sg\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribunal extends orders barring Sifuna\u2019s removal as ODM SG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Political Parties Disputes Tribunal has extended the orders preventing the removal of Edwin Sifuna from his role as Secretary-General of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nairobi Senator will remain in his position until\u00a0March 12th, as the tribunal awaits further directions on the case.<\/p>\n<p>Sifuna\u00a0<span>who also serves as Nairobi Senator,\u00a0<\/span><span>successfully challenged the ouster attempt arguing that the party failed to follow proper legal procedures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ODM, through its lawyers Makori &amp; Karimi Advocates has asked the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal (PPDT) to strike out a complaint filed by Sifuna, arguing that the dispute has been brought prematurely and falls outside the tribunal\u2019s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>They argue that issues raised by Sifuna are squarely within the realm of internal party management and governance, and therefore must be dealt with through the party\u2019s own dispute resolution structure.<\/p>\n<p>The Nairobi Senator accused the party\u2019s National Executive Council (NEC) of sidelining him through what he called an unconstitutional process.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/tribunal-extends-orders-barring-sifunas-removal-as-odm-sg125965-2\/\">Tribunal extends orders barring Sifuna\u2019s removal as ODM SG<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Political Parties Disputes Tribunal has extended the orders preventing the removal of Edwin Sifuna from his role as Secretary-General of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). The Nairobi Senator will remain in his position until\u00a0March 12th, as the tribunal awaits further directions on the case. Sifuna\u00a0who also serves as Nairobi Senator,\u00a0successfully challenged the ouster attempt [&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-132371","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\/132371","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=132371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}