[Nominated Member of Parliament Oburu Odinga at a past media briefing. Photo/Courtesy]
Nominated Member of Parliament Oburu Odinga has conceded defeat to Gideon Ochanda in Bondo nominations.
ODM nominations that were held in the region, Monday, saw incumbent Ochanda garner 28,446 votes against Oburu’s 4,000 votes.
Odinga however rejected the results.
The party’s National Elections Board through its chairperson Judy Pareno on Saturday announced that it will uphold victory. A decision that Oburu has now accepted.
“My decision is to abide by the party’s position in declaring Gideon Ochanda as the winner in the hotly contested nominations does not mean that I will be getting out of active politics because even right now, I am the Bondo constituency chairperson of ODM party,” Odinga told journalist in Nairobi, Sunday.
He also thanked Bondo residents for giving him a chance to serve them in parliament for four terms adding that he would still be available to serve ODM party in any other capacity.
The party’s Director of Political Affairs, Opiyo Wandayi, who had accompanied Oburu welcomed his decision saying it was ''a rare sense democratic maturity'' and asked other contenders who didn’t succeed to clinch the tickets to follow suit.
“Oburu, by voluntarily accepting the verdict of the party, has set an example which as a party we would urge everyone else to follow,” Wandayi said.