Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Homa-BayTown.
RESIDENTS of Ndhiwa constituency have proved they were steadfastly in ODM and have confidence in the party leadership contrary misconceptions and faulty impression created by rival parties.
By voting overwhelmingly for the ODM candidate Augustino Neto Oyugi, the electorate in Ndhiwa has displayed their unswerving loyalty to the party leader Raila Odinga.
A prominent politician in Homa-Bay County Hilary Ochieng Alila said this on Tuesday this week while thanking the Ndhiwa voters for their unshaken allegiance and loyalty to the party leadership in general ad to the Prime Minister Raila Odinga in particular.
Alila who stuck with the ODM after abandoning his elder brother Tom Otieno Alia who contested the by election on a KANU ticket and performed dismally .
His action was against the wishes of the entire Alia family in Ndhiwa which had disproved it and unsuccessfully persuaded Tom to pull out of the race.said his brother was only pushed into contesting the by-election by an unnamed senior ODM politician within Homa-Bay County as a ploy to complicate his own ambition for the elective position of Homa-Bay County Senate seat.
But he was glad that the voters have taught those who conspired with aims of undermining his ambition to become the first Senate for the Homa-By County have been shamed by the outcome of the Ndhiwa by-election
Alila said that the ODM success is because or the campaign of its issues based campaign strategy, which yielded the success fruits by producing positive results. “This will now ashame the forces of doom and conspirators who had hatched the plans of dirty politics of intrigues.”It could pave the way to clean campaign during the impending general elections due in Mach next year.
Alila who last Friday had accompany the ODM leader Raila Odinga in the helicopter flight that traversed the full length and width of the expansive Ndhiwa constituency during the last lap of the campaign said he thought his elder brother Tom Alia had no genuine intention of contesting the by-election as such.
He blamed the unnamed politician whom he scathingly criticize for having lured Tom Alila into contesting the by-election so that it could create bad impression which could in turn impacted negatively on the family and appear as if “the Alilas were oppose to Raila Odinga leadership.”
The end results, he said, has proved the family critics due to the mistake of one of them wrong. Politicians in Luo-Nyanza, he added, “should emulate Raila Odinga’s style and system kind of selfishlessness leadership which is devoid of malice, adding that during the ODM “supremo” made ten brief stops and addressed crowds of Wananchi across the constituency on the importance of voting for the ODM candidate, and the message was well received by the Waanchi.
The youthful Nairobi based businessman whose campaign style has hit the Homa-Bay County wit thud reiterated that he is still soldiering on with the campaign to capture the Homa-Bay County Senate seat.
Alila’s last week’s flight in the same “Chopa” with Raila Odinga gave the Ndhiwa voters the impression that this was an endorsement of his [Alila’s} candidature for the Senate seat.
He called upon his rivals for the same seat to conduct her campaign in mature an peaceful manner which is devoid of political intrigues and work hard as a team to ensure the party win all the seats in the region including those of women representative, county Wards, governorship.
He said he pleased and highly impressed by ODM performance in far a field like Eldoret in the Uasin Gishu County despite near insult propagandas directed by some leaders in those region against the ODM.
Alila made reference about his elder brother decision to contest he by-election on a KANU ticket, and disclosed that it was vehemently opposed by the entire family, though it was his democratic rights to do so, still it hurts the Alila family. He thought it could have been wise for Tom to drop out of the race after the ODM primary and utilized his influence in campaigning for the DOM instead of KANU.
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