Emerging details now indicate that Orange Democratic Party (ODM) leader Raila Odinga was opposed to the ouster of Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula as the Senate Minority Leader.
The Ford-Kenya party leader was on Tuesday unceremoniously ejected from the post by ODM senators, with fresh reports indicating that Odinga did everything within his power to prevent the ejection.
According to the Orange party Sectretary General Edwin Sifuna, the former Prime Minister urged the senators to drop the push, a request that was declined.
In an interview on Radio Jambo Wednesday, Sifuna revealed that Odinga called the senators on phone early Tuesday, in a bid to convene an emergency meeting to talk them out of the decision, a move that hit the wall.
''People who are saying that Odinga is behind Wetangula's ouster are very wrong. He has been trying to protect the Senator and on Tuesday tried to call the ODM senators engineering the ouster for an emergency meeting on the same, but they refused to heed the call,'' said Sifuna.
He also revealed that the National Super Alliance (NASA) supremo as well, made an attempt to disapprove the change through the alliance Chief Executive Officer Norman Magaya.
''He went ahead and sent Magaya to stress on the alliance's position that Wetangula is not to be stripped of the post but that did not bear any fruits as well,'' added Sifuna.
Wetangula's ouster has since aroused mixed reactions with the remaining Amani and Wiper NASA member parties condemning it.