ODM leader Raila Odinga is expected to hold a high-level meeting with Coast Orange party delegates on Saturday, September 17, 2021, at wild waters park in Nyali.
According to Mvita MP Abdulswamad Shariff Nassir, the aim of the meeting is to deliberate on how to strengthen the party in the Coast region through the recruitment of new members.
"We are simply recapturing what was always ours. The ideals of the ODM party," MP Abdulswamad told the press.
His counterpart, Likoni MP Mishi Mboko stated that the Orange party was still as strong in the Coast as ever.
"We will have our future candidate for the 2022 General Election," MP Mboko said.
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Odinga's tour comes barely a month after Governor Amason Kingi was removed as the Kilifi ODM chairperson over disloyalty and replaced with Ganze MP Teddy Mwambire.
The decision was made by the ODM leader with Governor Kingi, who has been pushing for the formation of a coalition by five Coast-based parties, accused of disloyalty to the Orange party.
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At the same time, Deputy President William Ruto has been making forays in the Coast region which has overwhelmingly voted for ODM in the previous elections.
DP Ruto has made several onslaughts in the Coast that have earned him a number of MPs who have shifted alliance from the Orange party to his Tanga Tanga wing of Jubilee associated with UDA.
A section of leaders who have switched their alliances from ODM includes Aisha Jumwa (Malindi), Owen Baya (Kilifi North), Khatib Mwashetani (Lunga Lunga), Mohamed Ali (Nyali), and former Mombasa senator Hassan Omar.
