Kisii Senator Chris Obure has broken his silence over his controversial appointment of nominated Senator Hosea Ochwangi to vote on his behalf in the senate during the controversial Elections Amendment Bill (2016) debate in the National Assembly instead of nominated Senator Janet Ong'era who has been doing it on his behalf since 2013.
Obure clarified that his position was informed by his current political dalliance with the Jubilee administration.
Speaking on Monday afternoon in his Boigesa village backyard of Bassi Chache ward during the burial of the late Dorcas Matoke, Obure for the first time broke his silence and accused the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party of having pushed him out of the party prompting him to seek refuge in Jubilee.
The move did not go down well with a section of the mourners who expressed their dissatisfaction with Obure's move to decamp to Jubilee without consulting his supporters, especially his Boigesa clansmen who have all along given him their blessings on all political decisions he has made in the past.
He defended himself against accusations that he appointed Ochwang'i to frustrate the opposition's spirited efforts to have the controversial law on elections defeated in the senate, saying he was working according to the feelings and direction from the Jubilee Government on whose ticket he will run the Kisii County Governor's seat.
"If ODM had not kicked me out, how would I have appointed their person in the name of nominated Senator Janet Ong'era to vote on my behalf yet she was not sharing the same interests as mine?" posed Obure.