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ODM leaders must sober up and stop party from fading into oblivion

When Suna East MP Junet Mohamed hosted President William Ruto in Suna East. [Junet Mohamed, X]

Raila Odinga's death inevitably put Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) on a path trodden by once powerful political parties, which became irrelevant and ceased to exist after their leaders died. The parties’ undoing was that they were built around personalities.

The Kenya African Democratic Union (Kadu) party under Ronald Ngala gradually disappeared following Ngala's death in 1972. By then, Kadu had been weakened through encroachment by the Kenya African National Union (Kanu).

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