Irshad Sumra, the immediate Embakasi South MP and ODM parliamentary aspirant in the just concluded by-elections, is somewhere in Mombasa with his family, reflecting.
But he sure is not very impressed with his orange flavored party. Sumra says the ODM brigade neglected him at his hour of need.
“The so called generals and the entire brigade of ODM, I mean elected governors, senators, MP’s and MCAs all left me to fight my battle alone on the fateful day,” Sumra who lost to Wiper’s Julius Mwawathe said.
The outspoken MP said the handful of marshals he had employed could not rival his opponent’s well-oiled wiper outfit which is accuses of greasing voters’ palms.
“They were all there, together with tangatanga, dishing bribes to voters left right and center and we could not do anything but stare in disbelief,” he says.
“The ODM Executive Director and his officials from Orange House were super and contributed a lot but the elected members simply refused to show up when I needed them most,” he added.
Sumra averred that ODM has been known to move like the wildebeest with overwhelming force and a matching show of might, he felt abandoned, alone and left to fight his battles on his own.