Senator Edwin Sifuna now claims that the Orange Democratic Movement has not joined the Kenya Kwanza government, and that the four cabinet appointees do not have the blessings of the party.

According to Sifuna, the party is being accused of miscommunication, prevaricating, double-speak and being  wishy-washy because of how the media has been reporting the happenings in the last two weeks.

Speaking on Thursday in a TV interview, the Nairobi senator said that no decision had been made by any organ of the party approving the joining of the president’s government.

“As secretary general, I sit in all the party organs and i am the spokesperson of all those organs. Kenyans just want someone to tell them the truth and there has been a lot of speculation as to the importance of what happened yesterday,” said Sifuna.

Sifuna insisted that there was no decision of any organ of  ODM   to join the government.

“There has been a deliberate effort to paint the ODM party in a bad light ever since Raila Odinga attended the signing of the IEBC Bill into law at the Kenyatta International Convention Center,” said Sifuna.

The ODM spokesperson said that the party had only called for a national conversation. Unfortunately that had been turned to mean a dialogue between ODM and United Democratic Alliance.

This comes after the president picked four of Raila’s men to join the cabinet.

ODM deputy party leader Ali Hassan Joho, chairman John Mbadi, Minority leader in parliament Opiyo Wandayi and Wycliffe Oparanya got slots in the new broad-based cabinet.

Joho was nominated as CS for mining, blue economy and maritime affairs, Oparanya got the cooperatives and MSME Development, John Mbadi national treasury and Opiyo Wandayi  got energy and petroleum docket

.Despite ODM’s stance, the four appointees accepted their nominations and expressed their gratitude to the president on social media.

According to Sifuna, the decision for the four to join Ruto’s cabinet is personal and lack the blessing of the party.