Orengo missing as Linda Mwananchi endorses Sifuna

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Mr Orengo skipped Saturday’s retreat at which the endorsement was made despite having publicly declared his interest in competing for the movement’s presidential ticket.

Members of the movement said Mr Orengo sent his apologies because he was attending to a sick family member and insisted that his absence should not be interpreted as a sign of division.

But the endorsement of Mr Sifuna comes at a critical point for the opposition movement which had been expected to subject competing presidential ambitions to an agreed nomination process.

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Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna (left) and Siaya Governor James Orengo during a high-level meeting of the Linda Mwananchi Political Formation in Nairobi on July 17, 2026.

Mr Orengo had maintained that opposition unity should not mean shutting down competing ambitions and had called for a credible process to determine the movement’s flag bearer.

“There is nothing wrong with competing ambitions within Linda Mwananchi or the opposition. What matters is that we subject all candidates to a credible nomination process and, at the end of it, we emerge with one candidate to face President William Ruto,” Mr Orengo said in a recent interview.

On Sunday, the Daily Nation sought to establish why Mr Orengo skipped the retreat and whether he supports the endorsement of Mr Sifuna, but he had not responded by the time of this story’s publication.

The county boss was on Sunday expected to join Jubilee Party leader Fred Matiang’i and People’s Party of Kenya leader Ndindi Nyoro for a church service at Dominion Church Olerai before a public rally in Narok Town.

At the retreat, however, the movement’s principals resolved to rally behind Mr Sifuna as they pursue a broader opposition coalition ahead of the 2027 General Election.

📰 Source: Nation Africa

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