By a Special Correspondent In Homa-Bay {L.O.Omolo}

The election battle for Ndhiwa parliamentary seat is expected to be the most interesting political scenario in the greater Southern Nyanza region.

This is an electoral area which is expected to produce explosive fireworks following the entry into the race by the populist Marine expert who is based in Mwanza, Tanzania and Kisumu Edward Ogonda Odero, who proudly told this writer that a change of political stewardship in Ndhiwa has come calling and was yawning at the constituency doorsteps.

The incumbent Ndhiwa MP is the abrasive Joshua Orwa Ojode who is also an Assistant Minister for Internal Security. He has represented this constituency ever since 1993 and he is also credited for having turned the constituency around in terms of massive development activities, which have since become the envious of the neighboring constituencies.

Ted Odero, as he is known to his peers, hails from Kabuoch, the most populous sub-clan within Ndhiwa with the largest registered votes topping all the five administrative Divisions of Ndhiwa district, which included Riana, Kobama, Ndhiwa,Nyarongi and Pala.

The young Indian trained politician is credited for being a political mobilize par excellence and for his public oratory.

The youthful politician is also credited for having connections in high places including the corridors of power and already his candidature has sent shivers and shock waves down the spinal cord of all other potential contestants for the same seat.

Speaking to this writer by the phone from the Lakeside town of Mwanza, Odero promise the electorate that if elected he would turn Ndhiwa to be the hub of economic activities on the region at the same time makes the agriculturally rich with sufficient annual rainfall also to be the hubs of massive food production.

Odero jokingly said that he had no quarrel with the outgoing MP Orwa Ojode whom he referred to as his friend, but insisted that it was time for a change. “The change is inevitable if the area is to be turned into a vibrant economy and serious development which is devoid of empty political slogans,”

Odero is reported to be a staunch ODM supporter and yout mobilize who has direct connection and good rapport with the party leadership a quality that is expected to work for his advantaged over his opponents,

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