{"id":10748,"date":"2026-01-08T07:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/10748\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:11:08","slug":"betrayed-in-death-inside-odms-rivalry-greed-killing-raila-odingas-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/10748\/","title":{"rendered":"Betrayed in death: Inside ODM&#8217;s rivalry, greed killing Raila Odinga&#8217;s legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/B1NC9mNZvsJ6zhKY5QTRQ8DWSqq06TnrjuqirzGx.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"card-text\">ODM leaders during the celebration of the late former party leader Raila Odinga\u2019s 81st birthday, in Kilifi, on January 7, 2026. \u00a0[Omondi Onyango, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<p>The flowery and nostalgic birthday messages and videos posted by ODM leaders to celebrate party leader Raila Odinga\u2019s birthday stand in stark contrast to what is happening in his once-celebrated political outfit, now tottering on the brink of self-destruction.<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Bold Reporting Takes Time, Courage and Investment. Stand With Us.\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    Unlimited access to all premium content<br \/>\n                    Uninterrupted ad-free browsing experience<br \/>\n                    Mobile-optimized reading experience<br \/>\n                    Weekly Newsletters<br \/>\n                    MPesa, Airtel Money and Cards accepted<\/p>\n<p>                                <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va0PRAYGk1Fo4ODHAg0b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Follow The Standard<br \/>\n                                    channel<br \/>\n                                    on WhatsApp<\/a><br \/>\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ODM leaders during the celebration of the late former party leader Raila Odinga\u2019s 81st birthday, in Kilifi, on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[80,7439,7440,2342],"class_list":{"0":"post-10748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-kenya","9":"tag-odm-faces-implosionraila-odinga-legacy","10":"tag-odm-succession-politics","11":"tag-odm-wrangles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}