Matungulu MP Stephen Mule is the latest Wiper politician to demand Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Party to relinquish its positions in Parliament and the Senate after its leader Raila Odinga signed a pact with President Uhuru Kenyatta last week.
Mule argues that Raila’s meeting with Uhuru that excluded his co-principals Kalonzo Musyoka, Moses Wetangula and Musalia Mudavadi is a clear indication that the Orange Party has shifted allegiance to Jubilee administration.
The Matungulu lawmaker that they are convinced that ODM is now in Jubilee Party after the party endorsed the Uhuru-Raila deal during its Parliamentary Group meeting on Tuesday.
“We are humbly requesting our colleagues in ODM to relinquish the parliamentary seats they have and handed them to Wiper, ANC and ford Kenya,” he said.
Mule said that the meeting between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila without the knowledge of NASA co-principals got them by surprised.
He said that Raila’s pledge to work with Jubilee without consulting his colleagues in the NASA family was betrayed.
“As members of the NASA affiliate parties, ANC, Wiper and Ford Kenya, we are still in shock and the Orange Party should come clear and state on whether Raila was representing his ODM party or NASA when he met the president,” the MP told journalists at Parliament Buildings on Wednesday.
Mule said that they will continue to demand for answers from the Orange party moving forward.
On Saturday, Makueni MP Daniel Maanzo said that ODM has joined Jubilee.He asked ODM MPs holding parliamentary seats to relinquishing them and follow their leader to the ruling Jubilee party.
On Tuesday afternoon, drama ensued in parliament after Mavoko legislator Patrick Makau occupied and sat on the Minority leader John Mbadi seat.
The MP claimed that Mbadi’s seat should be vacant since the ODM Party had allegedly had joined Jubilee.
Makau was forcefully ejected out of the ‘House’ after he defied speaker Justin Muturi’s orders to leave the seat.