Raila Odinga’s balls have been squeezed hard,he is now screaming aloud. Edwin Sifuna is the man who is squeezing them. It’s now becoming extremely hard to sack Sifuna as the Secretary General of ODM. Sources close to Raila intimate that he is between a rock and a hard place,this is because Sifuna is bigger than Raila and ODM at the moment. You see,Sifuna is the Senator of Nairobi,he was elected by all tribes. His popularity has grown past the imagination of ODM.If he contests as an independent candiate,he will win with a landslide.
ODM conducted a secret opinion poll on social media and among supporters and discovered that even without the party,Sifuna will still win the Senator seat in Nairobi. They also noted that if Sifuna is kicked out of ODM,the party will remain a Luo party because most Luhya people will stop supporting Raila.
Sifuna has 100% support of the Luhya and sacking him from the party implies that you have chased away the Luhya.
Raila is also secretly supporting Sifuna’s sentiments. You will notice that the ODM leader has never openly condemned Sifuna,he only told him once in the presence of Ruto,äsikuwe chungu sana”. This shows that Raila is not fully with William Ruto.
For now,ODM will not sack Edwin Sifuna because they need him more than he needs them.