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ODM's John Mbadiu and Opiyo Wandayi are seeking their way into President William Ruto's cabinet as CS for National Treasury and Energy respectively. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Opposition leader Raila Odinga's men yesterday turned out to be President William Ruto's defenders as they hastily swallowed their criticism of the government and its policies in a bid secure their cabinet positions.

ODM's Secretary of Political Affairs who serves the opposition's Azimio La Umoja Coalition Alliance as its Minority Leader Opiyo Wandayi elaborated his grand scheme to redeem the energy sector whose policies had driven Kenyans to the streets to protest high fuel prices.

He was following a path beaten by his party chairman, John Mbadi, who had earlier pulled all stops to sanitise the government's economic policies swearing to uphold the bottom-up economic transformation agenda which he has been bashing for the last three years.

Mbadi, the designated Treasury Cabinet Secretary, who was confronted by the slur he had made against some of the Cabinet Secretaries, referring them as skunks saying at the time, he was discharging duties as an opposition leader.

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