{"id":12791,"date":"2024-09-06T16:21:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T16:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=12791"},"modified":"2024-09-06T16:21:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T16:21:30","slug":"odm-denies-reports-raila-odinga-is-retiring-from-party-after-17-years-weve-not-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/odm-denies-reports-raila-odinga-is-retiring-from-party-after-17-years-weve-not-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"ODM denies reports Raila Odinga is retiring from party after 17 years: &#8220;We&#8217;ve not announced&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Raila Odinga still holds his position in the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party, secretary general Edwin Sifuna said on Tuesday<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sifuna was responding to an assertion by a local newspaper which held that Raila was seeking to give his post in the party to focus on his bid to head the African Union secretariat &#8216;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A few weeks back, the veteran politician announced taking a break from local politics to focus on his continental bid<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party has sought to allay the suspicion around the being of Raila Odinga in the outfit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secretary-general Edwin Sifuna clarified that Raila was yet to forfeit his position in the party&#8217;s leadership as a local newspaper had asserted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sifuna said that despite his boss ditching the local politics to focus on his African Union Commission (AUC) chairmanship bid, he still remains the leader of the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Several times, Raila Odinga has informed the country that he will be presenting himself for election to the position of chairman of the African Union Commission during elections to be held in February 2025. As matters stand now, neither Odinga nor ODM has announced his exit and retirement from party leadership,&#8221; partly read Sifuna&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"812\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"12792\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/odm-denies-reports-raila-odinga-is-retiring-from-party-after-17-years-weve-not-announced\/gwtbipgxiaaesgk\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GWtBIpGXIAAeSgk.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"951,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"GWtBIpGXIAAeSgk\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GWtBIpGXIAAeSgk.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GWtBIpGXIAAeSgk.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GWtBIpGXIAAeSgk-812x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GWtBIpGXIAAeSgk.jpg 812w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GWtBIpGXIAAeSgk.jpg 238w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GWtBIpGXIAAeSgk.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GWtBIpGXIAAeSgk.jpg 951w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor:msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party has sought to allay the suspicion around the being of Raila Odinga in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/AA1q2FzZ.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4438,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/kanu-endorses-veteran-politician-raila-odinga-ahead-of-kenya-s-presidential-elections-next-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":12791,"position":0},"title":"KANU ENDORSES VETERAN POLITICIAN RAILA ODINGA AHEAD OF KENYA &#8216;S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS NEXT YEAR","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"October 30, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"KANU Party Secretary-General Hon Nick Salat an ally of Gideon Moi has finally announced that the party has resolved to support Raila Odinga's 2022 Presidential Bid and other like-minded Kenyans who want to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta after the 2022 polls. 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