Tough speaking, outstanding and team leader, new ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna is not new to controversy.
Sometimes in 2015, Sifuna, then working as part of orange party legal team, lead a coup in the party where he temporarily ejected Ababu Namwamba albeit for few hours.
"I wanted to instill discipline and we cannot go on tolerating moles," he would say, adding that he would yet again evict Namwamba if necessary.
When he was appointed Secretary General a few weeks ago, Raila lauded him as a 'visionary young man with hunger to get more'.
And days after assuming office, Sifuna has dared ODM partners in NASA, insisting that Raila would be on ballot in 2022.
"We are not going to work with cowards. Our party will back Raila in 2022 and we have no apologies," he said.
But his rebellious traits may have been inherited from his father, Lawrence Sifuna, who once served as MP for Kanduyi and Bumula.
During his time, Lawrence Sifuna, was labelled 'Seven bearded sisters' by the then Attorney General Charles Njonjo.
Throughout his tenure, the older Sifuna spent days in jail for rebelling against Moi along with James Orengo, chelagat Mutai, Koigi Wamwere and Anyona Moseti.
It's evident that his son may have emulated his traits. The young Sifuna contested Nairobi senatorial seat unsuccessfully.