{"id":793163,"date":"2026-02-09T17:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/?p=793163"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:41:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:41:55","slug":"mbadi-signals-2032-presidential-ambitions-amid-odm-rift-over-kenya-kwanza-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2026\/02\/mbadi-signals-2032-presidential-ambitions-amid-odm-rift-over-kenya-kwanza-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbadi Signals 2032 Presidential Ambitions Amid ODM Rift Over Kenya Kwanza Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Feb 9 &#8211; National Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has declared that he will seek the presidency in 2032, even as he mounted a fierce defence of Orange Democratic Movemebnt\u2019s cooperation with President William Ruto\u2019s Kenya Kwanza administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking in Homa Bay County, Mbadi said the decision by the Orange Democratic Movement to work with the government was made by party leader Raila Odinga and would continue beyond the 2027 General Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRaila left us in broad-based government and even said that after 2027 we will continue working with the Kenya Kwanza government,\u201d Mbadi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cAnd even if Raila didn\u2019t say that, do you want us to join Gachagua, join Matiang\u2019i or even Kalonzo? For us, we will work with Ruto past 2027 and in 2032 some of us are ready to be on the ballot as president of this nation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mbadi\u2019s remarks mark his clearest indication yet of personal ambitions to succeed President Ruto, and come at a time when ODM is grappling with internal dissent over its political direction and identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Treasury CS also took direct aim at Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna, questioning his loyalty to the party and suggesting that he had already crossed political lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSomeone like Sifuna will not remain in ODM because he is already conflicted. He is now selling the agenda of someone else. Why are you pretending? You cannot keep him in the party; he is gone. Allow him to go,\u201d Mbadi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attack was reinforced by a former ODM national chairman, who accused Sifuna of undermining party unity and misrepresenting his authority within ODM\u2019s internal structures. Drawing parallels with past party disputes, the former chairman recalled the removal of former Budalang\u2019i MP Ababu Namwamba during his tenure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I was chairman of the party and Ababu Namwamba was behaving the way he is behaving, I made sure he had left. I convened a disciplinary committee against him as the secretary-general,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He dismissed claims that the ODM secretary-general controls key party documents, saying governance reforms had since been introduced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLet nobody cheat that the secretary-general is keeping the documents of the party. That one we changed; we created trustees. Sifuna doesn\u2019t even know where the registration certificate of ODM is. If he has seen it, let him take a picture and post it on WhatsApp,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former chairman insisted that ODM would remain intact regardless of individual exits. \u201cHe can leave with the people he will leave with, but the party will remain cohesive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remarks come amid visible divisions within ODM, with rival leaders issuing contradictory statements on the party\u2019s engagement with the Kenya Kwanza administration. Mbadi accused some party officials of advancing parallel agendas while publicly questioning Raila Odinga\u2019s role in the broad-based arrangement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe need a cohesive party, not a party where the leader says one thing and officials say another,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes days after Kisumu Woman Representative Ruth Odinga warned of turbulent times ahead for the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), backing Secretary General Edwin Sifuna and a group of leaders resisting closer ties with President William Ruto\u2019s United Democratic Alliance (UDA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, Odinga defended Sifuna against mounting criticism within the party, saying attacks directed at him following a recent Citizen TV interview exposed shifting loyalties and growing intolerance of dissent inside ODM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sifuna and a section of legislators have been branded \u201crebels\u201d for questioning the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in March 2025 between President Ruto and the late former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Ruth Odinga argued that raising concerns about the MoU\u2019s implementation and party transparency should not attract vilification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe questions the very things we have been questioning,\u201d she said, dismissing online attacks against the Nairobi Senator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a signatory to the ODM account, if he questions where the money for choppers, big tents and ODM-branded T-shirts and caps used at the \u2018Linda Ground\u2019 conventions is coming from, why should anyone abuse him?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the centre of the dispute are ODM consultative rallies branded&nbsp;<em>Linda Ground<\/em>&nbsp;forums, spearheaded by Acting Party Leader Oburu Oginga and Party Chairperson Gladys Wanga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meetings are meant to gather views on whether ODM should enter pre-coalition talks with UDA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He dismissed claims that the ODM secretary-general controls key party documents, saying governance reforms had since been introduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14288,"featured_media":754709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4625,26],"tags":[44151,1981,44154,491,44152,44153,44150],"coauthors":[2156],"class_list":["post-793163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kenya","category-national-news","category-top-stories","tag-edwin-sifuna-odm-conflict","tag-featured","tag-john-mbadi-2032-presidential-ambitions","tag-kenya","tag-odm-internal-party-division","tag-odm-kenya-kwanza-alliance","tag-raila-odinga-odm-leadership"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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