Ex-minister apologises to Raila, decamps from Jubilee to Cord

“We have realised that nothing is going to be done and that the country is heading in the wrong direction,” Onyonka said.

Speaking during the party’s National Governing Council meeting at the Bomas of Kenya, the MP said that he saw it was best to stay in ODM and asked for forgiveness from both Raila and the party’s supporters.

Onyonka was last week chased away by an irate mob from a polling station during Nyacheki by-elections in Kisii County.

Onyonka had gone to witness the voting but a crowd told him off saying he was not an observer and accused him of trying to bribe voters by dishing out money.

Last year, Onyonko became one of the very first opposition MPs to reveal that he would defend his seat on a Jubilee ticket.

Despite not having been elected on an ODM ticket, he became assistant minister after Raila nominated him while forming the ‘half’ of cabinet in the Grand Coalition Government.