Nairobi Senator and ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna now says they will not leave the negotiation table no matter how their detractors keep sabotaging the talks.
This comes a day after Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua said nothing will come out of the talks.
He said the ODM leader Raila Odinga had already sorted his interests and left other Azimio leaders hanging.
“In 2018, Raila left Kalonzo, met retired President Uhuru Kenyatta and had a handshake. All development projects went to Nyanza, you still voted for him,” Gachagua said.
“He recently looked for the President, never involved Kalonzo but only talked of his wife, children, people and himself. Nothing in talks. What’s Kalonzo talking about on your behalf? He has been given the agenda by Raila. What’s the talks about?” Gachagua posed.
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Senator Sifuna, however, in an apparent rejoinder said they will use the negotiation platform to address their concerns including the cost of living adding that insults targeting the talks will not move them.
Sifuna said the talks being held are not about them but about the people whose interests they are representing.
"We will keep pushing the remaining issues, especially on the cost of living. Now that we dragged the ostrich to the table, we will not allow it to leave until it hears us out.
"They will throw snide remarks and insults to try and trigger us, but because this isn’t about us we will trudge on and make sure YOUR message is delivered. Sort out Mwananchi issues and you are welcome to insult us all day.
He went on to say that so far a number of positive things happening in the country are a result of Noise being propagated by the opposition.
"It appears sense is starting to prevail. The backtracking on the disastrous GtoG oil importation program, the return of fuel subsidies, the backtracking on the privatization of sugar mills, the writing off of their debts, backtracking by the regime on Privatization without parliamentary approval, are all indicators that our “noise” works," he said.
