Caleb Amisi Gives Up on ODM after Raila Odinga’s Death: I See the End

Title: ODM Faces Uncertain Future After Veteran Leader’s Passing, Lawmaker Warns
Nairobi — In the wake of the passing of former prime minister and ODM supreme leader Raila Odinga, the party he carried for more than two decades is facing what one prominent MP called a terminal crisis . Saboti MP Caleb Amisi declared that without Raila at the helm, the party lacks a true successor who embodies his values and could steer the movement into the next era.
Amisi, voicing his concerns publicly, argued that many of the current ODM leadership lack the ideological grounding and historical struggle that formed the party’s foundation. There is no one who understands the journey, the sacrifices, the audacity, the principles and ideologies that Mzee stood for, he said.
He proposed the formation of a veterans’ council comprising figures who walked with Odinga through the second liberation and constitutional struggle, to guide the party’s next phase. In his view, leaving the future of ODM to a single individual or unspecified leadership would risk the party’s collapse.
The MP’s remarks arrive amid visible fractures inside the party: while the ODM leadership’s Central Management Committee resolved to continue collaborating with the current government, dissenters argue that this direction deviates from the legacy of the late leader. Amisi condemned attempts to silence internal critics, noting that such intolerance was at odds with how Odinga himself managed dissent. His comments have ignited discussion about the identity and trajectory of the party in Kenya’s changing political landscape.