{"id":4387,"date":"2020-06-08T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T13:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2020-06-08T13:46:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T13:46:27","slug":"revealed-oparanya-to-take-over-ford-kenya-party-leadership-as-new-office-is-gazetted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=4387","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Oparanya to take over Ford Kenya Party leadership as new office is gazetted."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The intrigues in Ford Kenya party will take a new dimension as Odm&#8217;s deputy party leader and second term Kakamega governor Hon Oparanya is rumoured to be joining the party.<br><br>This comes at a time when Kenya gazette a government&#8217;s official publication gazetted Hon Wafula Wamunyinyi as  the new interim party leader sealing off Wetangula&#8217;s fate in Ford Kenya.<br><br>Our sources have also informed us that prior to Wetangula&#8217;s ouster, plans were at an advanced stage of stripping off Esseli of his position as party Sg.<br> &#8220;There were plans of removing Eseli from the party due to his hardline stand on a merger of Ford Kenya with some other party. Now Eseli has pulled a first one on Wetangula and the matter is done and dusted. Ford Kenya is reclaiming its long lost glory&#8221; a source from Ford Kenya who did not wish to be named for fear of re tribulations said.<br><br>With 2022 political equation shaping up and the BBI agenda likely to bring forth a referendum, political players are keen to have the right people in right positions.<br><br>The purge in both the senate and the National Assembly point out to an interesting scenario as 2022 approaches.<br><br>Questions now linger on the possibility and the ramifications of Oparanya crossing over to Ford Kenya as its New party leader his close ties with Raila notwithstanding.<br><br> &#8220;Yes Kenya is changing and we dont want parties holding people hostage, if Oparanya&#8217;s arrival will sanitize Mulembe politics so be it.&#8221; a Ford Kenya member said.<br><br>Those against Oparanya&#8217;s crossover had a different view.<br><br>&#8220;The coup in Ford Kenya was sponsored by external forces and if Oparanya is indeed joining then this puts all the doubts to rest&#8221; David Wafula said.<br> <br>&#8220;This new move will make Ford Kenya a branch of Odm which is not good for our democracy, someone is seriously struggling  to return Kenya to the one party era&#8221; Anne Wasike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intrigues in Ford Kenya party will take a new dimension as Odm&#8217;s deputy party leader and second term Kakamega governor Hon Oparanya is rumoured to be joining the party.This comes at a time when Kenya gazette a government&#8217;s official publication gazetted Hon Wafula Wamunyinyi as the new interim party leader sealing off Wetangula&#8217;s fate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4389,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/4389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}