Governor Lenku Reveals What made Him Ditch Jubilee For ODM

Former Governor David Nkedianye, Hon Ole Lenku’s major challenger for the Azimio ticket, and a gang of Jubilee officials, he claims, were hell-bent on cheating him out of the ticket.

The transition from one Azimio party to another for Dr Nkedianye and Mr Lenku was a sequence of steps—or blunders, depending on who you ask—that began almost immediately after the Azimio movement began.

First, Mr Lenku’s political strategists launched a campaign to convince Azimio to give Jubilee the governorship ticket and ODM the presidential vote.

The chat appears to have unsettled Dr Nkedianye’s camp, especially after Mr Odinga is alleged to have assured him he would not obtain the ODM ticket.

However, sources within the ODM indicated that talk of zoning amongst Azimio affiliate parties was discontinued as it became evident that it would impede mobilization for the presidential election.

This information appears to have arrived late with the Nkedianye team, prompting him to flee ODM for Jubilee, ostensibly to take the fight to Mr Lenku.

While Dr. Nkedianye plotted how to bring the fight to Mr. Lenku in Jubilee, the governor began covert meetings with top ODM figures, including Mr. Odinga and his wife, lda Odinga.

Lenku was received at ODM’s Chungwa House on Thursday last week. The Daily Nation reports that, as an overview, Governor Joseph Ole Lenku decamped to ODM due to vested interests by Jubilee’s high-stakes political game plan, dishonest politics, and Party officials who pressurised him to drop his bid.