After a brief dalliance with President William Ruto's regime, several allies of opposition leader Raila Odinga have declared that they did not join government and are now preparing to take power in the 2027 election.
In the recent past, Orange Democratic Party (ODM) chairperson Gladys Wanga, who has been one of Ruto's vocal defenders from the opposition side, has changed her stance, now backing her party to emerge victorious in the next General Election.
Wanga stated that ODM is a distinct political party that is strengthening its presence at the grassroots and national levels to capture power in 2027.
The Homa Bay Governor defended her decision to support Ruto, stating that experts from ODM had joined the broad-based government, and she did not want to contradict them. "ODM pronounced itself on the matter of broad-based government that we are a distinct party that is out to capture power, and the central management committee has never contradicted itself, and we will never sell ourselves short as an ODM party because we are the largest party," said Wanga.
