ODM’s Leadership Meltdown: A Crisis Rooted in Ideological Bankruptcy
The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) finds itself entangled in an existential crisis that has little to do with ideology, policy, or national vision, and everything to do with political opportunism, ethnic anxieties, and succession battles. The bitter dispute over the party’s disputed leadership elections in Mombasa, the conflicting positions on whether to remain in President William Ruto’s broad-based government, and the absence of any coherent programme beyond Raila Odinga’s 10-point agreement, all expose a deeper reality: ODM is not fractured because of divergent political philosophies, but because it has no ideological anchor. Its leaders are not debating the future of…