Orengo who has been conspicuously missing in Odinga's presidential campaign commended the voting process by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries ...
Orengo’s rallying call for voters to back ODM candidates mirrors Odinga’s message during a campaign in Siaya in July when he asked voters in the region to unite behind the party. The senator who has largely camped in the county in a bid to mobilize support to beat former Rarienda lawmaker Nicholus Gumbo’s wave asked voters in the region to back ODM candidates. Orengo who has been Raila Odinga’s righthand man since his failed presidential bid in 2002 on the Social Democratic Party said he was certain the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party would do well in the larger Nyanza region despite an avalanche of independent candidates.
ODM governor candidate in Siaya Senator James Orengo voted at Urenga Primary School in Ugenya, dismissing assertions the race is hotly contested.
"It is for good reason the elections were scheduled on the same day. That is reason enough to vote for Raila, he said. Let our people come out in large numbers," Atandi said. That one was hot." "I wonder where this [tight race assertion] is coming from. He said the only hotly contested election he ever participated in was when he was freshly out of the university.