McOure dares Sifuna to quit ODM now in a blistering broadside that’s cracked open the Orange Democratic Movement’s fragile post-Raila facade, as youth league firebrand Kasmuel McOure unleashed his gauntlet on Secretary General Edwin Sifuna, challenging him to walk the talk if he views the party’s broad-based pact with Ruto’s regime as a relic of yesteryear.
“Sifuna, if you’re man enough and think that ODM is too retrogressive for you, resign,” McOure thundered during a fiery TV47 interview that lit up social feeds like dry savanna grass, his words a direct jab at Sifuna’s recent gripes over the alliance’s “stifling” strings, just as ODM elders huddle to chart a course through the Agago’s October 14 void.
McOure, the 30-something activist and ODM Youth League coordinator whose baritone anthems have rallied Gen Z from Kisumu’s lakeside lounges to Nairobi’s protest pavements, didn’t mince his melody.
Flanked by a backdrop of faded Raila posters in a nondescript Eastlands studio, he unpacked the beef: Sifuna’s public potshots at the broad-based government – that 2022 handshake sequel where ODM snagged cabinet slots like Irrigation and Mining – smack of disloyalty to Baba’s blueprint.
“Raila left us in the broad-based arrangement with obvious instructions. You can’t speak for the ODM Party and then, on the other hand, speak things that are contrary,” McOure pressed, his finger jabbing the camera like a courtroom pointer, evoking memories of Odinga’s own bridge-building bravado that thawed feuds from the 2007 ashes.
The spat simmers in ODM’s succession stew, where Sifuna’s star – burnished by viral Senate showdowns and that silver-tongued defence of Azimio’s soul – now casts long shadows over whispers of Joho as heir or Orengo as oracle.
McOure, no stranger to party primaries’ rough-and-tumble (he clinched his youth slot in a 2023 knife-edge vote), framed it as a loyalty litmus: “If Sifuna finds ODM too regressive, he should resign – we will endorse Ruto if he delivers.”
It’s a cheeky nod to pragmatism, echoing Raila’s pre-death murmurs of “working within” for devolution dividends, but it risks riling the rank-and-file who’ve marched against hustler hikes.
Sifuna, yet to fire back publicly, huddled with Pentagon peers in a Karen war room, per insiders, where the air hung thick with chai steam and strategy scribbles.
“Edwin’s our megaphone – this is family friction, not fracture,” one ally leaked to the local daily, but the youth league’s murmur grows: McOure’s crew, 5,000 strong from Mombasa to Mandera, eyes him as a fresh face for the SG throne come the 2027 congress.
As October’s trade winds whip through Wajir’s wadis, McOure’s dare spotlights ODM’s crossroads: Cling to Raila’s rainbow coalitions, or chase the youth’s radical remix? In a republic where parties pulse like Nairobi’s veins, this internal inferno could forge steel or scatter sparks. Sifuna’s next move? The party’s pulse – and Kenya’s polls – hangs in the balance. Will he resign or rally?