{"id":229572,"date":"2026-04-05T13:41:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-makau-mutua-declares-sifuna-finished-in-odm-drama\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:41:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:41:54","slug":"kenya-makau-mutua-declares-sifuna-finished-in-odm-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-makau-mutua-declares-sifuna-finished-in-odm-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Makau Mutua Declares Sifuna &#8216;Finished&#8217; in ODM Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nairobi \u2014 Outspoken political analyst Makau Mutua has declared embattled ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna is a &#8220;dead man walking&#8221; amid a deepening fallout in the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Mutua made the remarks on X on Friday a day after ODM initiated disciplinary proceedings against Sifuna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">&#8220;The embattled ODM party Secretary General Edwin Sifuna is a dead man walking,&#8221; Mutua said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">In a show-cause letter dated April 2, signed by party&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604030336.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Outspoken political analyst Makau Mutua has declared embattled ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna is a &#8220;dead man walking&#8221; amid a deepening fallout in the party. Mutua made the remarks on X on Friday a day after ODM initiated disciplinary proceedings against Sifuna. &#8220;The embattled ODM party Secretary General Edwin Sifuna is a dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":229573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7030,10335,8842,4688,430,42209,13259,257,7022,47245,254],"class_list":["post-229572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-declares","tag-drama","tag-finished","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-makau","tag-mutua","tag-news","tag-odm","tag-sifuna","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}