{"id":13598,"date":"2020-08-30T18:49:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T18:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=13598"},"modified":"2020-08-30T18:49:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T18:49:38","slug":"odm-makes-changes-as-it-prepares-for-2022-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/odm-makes-changes-as-it-prepares-for-2022-poll","title":{"rendered":"ODM makes changes as it prepares for 2022 poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Authors: Kepher Otieno and Protus Onyango\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) is putting its house in order in readiness for the 2022 General Election.<\/p>\n<p>Already, the Raila Odinga-led party has overhauled its National Elections Board (NEB) and Electoral Disciplinary Committee. It is also finalising plans to hold grassroots elections and mount a countrywide drive to recruit new members.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Orange party\u2019s 47 county chairpersons committee who constitute the county coordinating committee, met in Nairobi to agree on logistical and other preparations needed to\u00a0make\u00a0the exercise a success.\u00a0\u201cWe have resolved to go back to our regions to prepare for elections.<\/p>\n<p>This will allow our supporters to participate in the envisaged reforms through the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) and vote for our leader to\u00a0make\u00a0the next government in 2022,\u201d said Makadara MP, George Aladwa, who chairs the committee.<\/p>\n<p>The party hopes that free and fair grassroots elections will reverse the steep fall in membership in its future party nominations.\u00a0The party has also resolved to allow back members who had quit after feeling shortchanged in nominations. Raila has on two occasions recently welcomed back politicians who had quit the party during the 2017 General Election.<\/p>\n<p>They include those who had sought the party\u2019s ticket for Member of County Assembly (MCA), MP, Women Rep, Senate and gubernatorial seats.\u00a0With barely 22 months to the next elections, the party is keen to avoid a repeat of shambolic primaries that saw several members defect to vie as independent candidates or join Jubilee or smaller parties.<\/p>\n<p>ODM\u00a0chairman John Mbadi said they are reorganising the party\u2019s electoral system to win members\u2019 confidence in readiness for primaries, which have been a thorn in the party\u2019s flesh in the past.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-group readmore my-3\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe want to put our house in order partly by injecting professionalism into our electoral process,\u201d said Mr Mbadi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shaping future<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reforms will give Orange party members freedom to shape their future by taking immediate control of money and party calendar activities and programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said that at the moment,\u00a0ODM\u00a0top organs are working on the party\u2019s election timetable, which includes planning calendar activities expected to run from next month through to 2022 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from overhauling NEB, which is charged with overseeing party primaries each General Election cycle,\u00a0ODM\u00a0is also exploring qualification threshold for aspirants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party\u2019s top organ is of the opinion that they up the game by only allowing those with bachelor\u2019s degree in any discipline to vie for elective posts such as MP, senators and governors,\u201d Mbadi said.<\/p>\n<p>The higher level of education could also be extended to those who intend to vie for the position of MCA to attract a high calibre of professionals at the county assemblies.\u00a0\u201cSome people support setting the qualifications thresholds to raise the bar for our members, but others want the levels capped at diploma for ward reps position,\u201d Mbadi said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the envisaged reforms were necessary, but promised that the party seek the opinion of its members adopting the proposed\u00a0changes. He said the party was also reviewing its nomination fees for governor, senator, MP, ward rep positions.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2017, the party\u2019s nomination fee for presidential candidates was Sh1 million, gubernatorial candidates paid Sh500,000, whereas senatorial and MP posts attracted Sh250,000.\u00a0Ward reps paid Sh25,000 while those classified under special interest groups, including the disabled, women and youth, paid Sh15,000.<\/p>\n<p>Mbadi said those figures could be reviewed upwards or downwards, depending on the prevailing circumstances.\u00a0The party has since named Catherine Mumma as the NEB chairperson for five years.\u00a0She took over from from nominated Senator Judith Pareno. Other members of the board include\u00a0Abdulahi Diriye,\u00a0Richard Tairo, Syntei Nchoe and Emily Awita.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Radical surgery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prof Mumma had previously chaired the task force which looked into issues that marred\u00a0ODM\u00a0nominations and led to some of its members decamping.\u00a0The Mumma committee recommended a radical surgery, which Raila implemented a week ago as he appointed a new NEB to oversee party polls.<\/p>\n<p>The Mumma report faulted past NEB officials, accusing them of being in the business of deliberately staging chaotic and violent elections to facilitate favourites to end up as\u00a0ODM\u00a0nominees for elections.<\/p>\n<p>The report suggested that\u00a0ODM\u00a0should consider an objective formula to ensure it nominates the strongest candidates, who meet all requirements for nomination for every elective position.\u00a0ODM\u00a0Secretary General Edwin Sifuna appealed to members to bear with the party hierarchy as it institutes the reforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Kepher Otieno and Protus Onyango\u00a0 AfricaPress-Kenya: Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) is putting its house in order in readiness for the 2022 General Election. 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