Embakasi East MP Babu Owino has maintained that he will be the next Opposition leader, once Raila Amollo Odinga settles in as African Union Chairman.
Owino told off critics noting that he has enough experience to take up the huge responsibility.
“Experience does not come with age, it comes with challenges that you have gone through. I have lived for 35 years and experienced challenges and got solutions to those challenges but someone else has lived more years but gone through fewer challenges,” he said in an interview with TV 47.
At the same time, he said that his relationship with the seemingly former ODM leader is still intact, despite his aspirations to replace him.
Owino said that Raila is his leader and he will continue respecting him.
“Raila has been my political leader and I respect him so much, I have worked under him, for him and with him and he is still my leader,” Babu Owino clarified. “Raila has tried his best for this nation, he has fought for the nation regardless of what people might say we cannot wish away what Raila has done for this nation.”
Owino declared himself the new opposition leader after four members of ODM were named as cabinet secretaries in the new broad-based government.
““From today henceforth I am the chief opposition leader because there are so many people who were in opposition but now they are in government. My interests is to fight for Kenyans. It pains me to see a person who was a fellow member of Parliament Joining government,” he said.
