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Can Oburu Odinga fill Raila's shoes?

ODM Delegates  follow and enjoy proceedings during a meeting  at Oburu Odinga Odinga's  home in Bondo, Siaya.[Michael Mute, Standard]

Siaya Senator Oburu Oginga did not know he had been made the acting party leader of his late brother’s Orange Democratic Movement when the decision was made, he said in a recent televised interview.

Walking in Raila Odinga’s shadow as long as he had, and in their late father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga’s, Dr Oburu hardly needed a heads-up to take over the party’s leadership if it came to that, as it did with the former prime minister’s passing.

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