In a poignant moment during what would have been Raila Odinga’s 81st birthday celebration in Karen, Nairobi, Mama Ida Odinga issued a heartfelt plea for unity within the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), urging feuding leaders to “sit down and talk” in honor of her late husband’s legacy. Hours later, party Secretary General Edwin Sifuna responded with an emotional pledge of reconciliation, vowing not to be the one who “wrecks” ODM and extending an olive branch to colleagues who have “insulted” him.
Yet beneath this display of détente lies a deepening crisis that has exposed raw power struggles, unresolved grievances from the 2022 elections, and ideological rifts in the post-Raila era — just three months after the opposition icon’s death in October 2025.
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