ODM: GUV BARASA WANTS IT ALIVE, OPARANYA WANTS IT DEAD.

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When Raila Odinga personally came to Kakamega Golf Club for what turned out to be his last ODM meeting, a defining test of party loyalty was laid bare. That moment exposed, without ambiguity, who stood with the party leader and who deliberately chose to stand aside.

The Oparanya faction, captained by Nabii Nabwera, openly boycotted that historic rally. Wycliffe Oparanya, Nabii Nabwera, and Elsie all deliberately kept away. This was not an oversight or coincidence. It was a calculated political statement made in full knowledge of Raila Odinga’s presence and authority.

The defiance went even further.

When the late Raila Odinga summoned an ODM Parliamentary Group meeting, the same group defied his call yet again. Instead of upholding party discipline, they chose open rebellion. In Raila Odinga’s final moments, they were not mobilising for ODM unity. They were shouting Harambee and Khuli Halala as they openly adulterated with FORD KENYA leader Moses Masika Wetang’ula, fraternising with rival political forces while mocking ODM cohesion.

This conduct was not ideological dissent. It was political betrayal.

These chants were not innocent slogans. They symbolised a conscious shift away from ODM, a loud declaration that allegiance had been transferred elsewhere even as Raila Odinga struggled to hold the party together.

This history poses a serious and unavoidable question.

What suddenly makes them more ODM after Raila Odinga’s death?

How does one boycott Raila Odinga while he is alive, defy his meetings, adulterate with rival parties, and then, upon his passing, attempt to wrap oneself in ODM colours as if nothing happened?

Where was this loyalty when Raila Odinga personally called meetings?
Where was this respect for party structures when discipline was required?
Where was this supposed devotion to ODM when they were chanting rival slogans alongside Moses Masika Wetang’ula?

The truth is stark and inescapable.

You cannot abandon Raila Odinga in life and inherit his legacy in death.

ODM is not a funeral costume to be worn when it becomes politically convenient. It is a living political movement grounded in consistency, loyalty, sacrifice, and ideological clarity. Those who chose defiance, absence, and adulteration with rival parties during Raila Odinga’s lifetime cannot credibly present themselves today as guardians of his legacy.

History does not record loud mourning after death. It records choices made while a leader was alive. And history will remember who stood with Raila Odinga to the very end and who chose revolt, rival alliances, and political double speak.

Edwin Shivakale Skem
Oracle of Teremi
20 January 2026

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