Kaluma calls for crisis meeting to flush out ODM rebels
By Joel Masibo, December 31, 2025Homa Bay Town Member of Parliament Peter Kaluma has called upon the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party leader Oburu Odinga to kick out rebels from the political outfit, who are sabotaging the late former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
Taking to X on Wednesday, December 31, 2025, Kaluma challenged the Siaya County Senator to convene a crisis meeting with the agenda of chasing away the party rebels and strip them of parliamentary leadership positions.
Kicking out ODM rebels
”The ODM party leader, Dr Oburu Oginga: Please convene a meeting of the relevant organ of the Party so that the members may kick out the Gachagua men contradicting Baba barely 3 months since he rested!” Kaluma wrote.
Kaluma’s call comes a day after a section of the Orange party’s top leaders, led by Secretary General Edwin Sifuna and Deputy Party Leader Godfrey Osotsi, vowed to stay put amid the mounting pressure to exit ODM.
While attending the funeral of former Lugari Member of Parliament Cyrus Jirongo in Lumakanda on Tuesday, December 30, 2025, both Sifuna and Osotsi vowed to keep their spaces in ODM amid widening cracks linked to different opinions regarding the broad-based government arrangements between President William Ruto’s regime and ODM. At the centre of rifts within the ODM party is also the implementation of the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) report.
Earlier, Osotsi dismissed calls for leaders from Western Kenya, including the Nairobi Senator, Edwin Sifuna, to quit the Orange party, insisting that the party remains their political home and that any disagreements will be resolved internally.
Speaking in Lugari on Sunday, December 21, 2025, during a visit by ODM leaders to pay condolences to the family of the late former MP Cyrus Jirongo, Osotsi said there was no justification for abandoning a party they had helped build over decades.
Osotsi, Sifuna defiant
“I have heard people saying that Luhyas should leave ODM. Leave and go where? Leave and go where?” Osotsi posed.
“We started this journey long ago. We started with that party called LDP. Here in Western, the party that had strength was Ford Kenya, but we brought in LDP. LDP came and gave birth to ODM Kenya. ODM Kenya, Kalonzo ran away with it, then we created ODM,” he recounted.
Osotsi noted that despite political shifts over the years, the group had remained loyal to ODM since its formation. “We have been in ODM; in 2007, we campaigned for ODM, in 2013 we campaigned for ODM, in 2017 we campaigned for ODM, in 2022. We have invested in this party. We are not going anywhere,” Osotsi declared.