Opposition leader Raila Odinga, has been pressuring a section of leaders who were elected under the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition but later switched camps to resign and go face the electorates.
“If you are elected on an ODM Azimio ticket and you are now dancing with Kenya Kwanza, resign and go face the electorates,” Raila Odinga said in March 2023.
However, on Sunday, August 13, Suba South Member of Parliament Caroli Omondi fired back salvos at the former Prime Minister for opposing his move to work with President William Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza political wing.
Omondi, a former aide to the veteran politician maintained that he will work with Kenya’s President William Ruto even if it will cost him his seat.
The first-time legislator who was speaking during the commissioning of the first public Wi-Fi at Magunga Market in Homa Bay said he did not win the seat in the 2022 elections because of the ODM party ticket.
He further exuded confidence that he will still win his re-election whether he vied on an ODM ticket or not.
“If somebody thinks that I will need an ODM ticket to run again, let me tell them I am ready to face my fate. I will come back, and you will tell me where to follow, and I will win. That one I am sure I will get back to parliament,” Omondi said.
According to Raila Odinga, it was wrong for members of parliament not to stick to their parties or coalition adding that shifting camps were weakening parliamentary democracy.
“For parliamentary democracy to work, members of parliament elected on a political party’s ticket or on a coalition’s ticket must stick to those parties for the life of that parliament. That’s the only way we can strengthen our parliamentary democracy,” he said.
