JP panicked when ‘I shifted’ allegiance

Kisumu speaker Onyango Oloo at a past press briefing. /FILE
Kisumu speaker Onyango Oloo at a past press briefing. /FILE

Former TNA secretary general Onyango Oloo has said top Jubilee Party leaders panicked after realising he was joining ODM. He said he was subjected to undue pressure to shelve the idea. Oloo on Tuesday on a Radio Ramogi talk show said his conscience could not allow him to turn back. He said the state offered to airlift him from Kisumu and abort his defection. “I had to lie to them I will book a flight to Nairobi and there was no need of dispatching a chopper to pick me up,” Oloo said. He said those are clear pointers Jubilee is under siege. Oloo said he left JP with faithful lieutenants, saying he cannot name them for fear of the reprisal and intimidation that he was subjected to . He dismissed as “inconsequential” remarks by Devolution CS Mwangi Kiunjuri that JP has a dossier of his corrupt actions when he was the Lake Basin Development Authority chairman.

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