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The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party leader Oburu Oginga has insisted that the Broad-Based Government (BBG) was not meant to terminate on March 7 but will continue up to next year.

Oburu on Tuesday stated that date 7 was only meant to mark an anniversary of when President William Ruto and late Raila Odinga signed the MoU that gave rise to BBG.

“March 7, which was slated as the date for the making of a report, was not the end of the BBG. The BBG goes up to 2027. March 7 was marking the beginning of the date when this 10-point agenda was signed. It was an anniversary. It was to celebrate that anniversary,” he said.

The ODM party leader rejected claims that the BBG expired last Saturday, insisting the day was only earmarked for the report handover.

“It was the day the team was to give us the interim report on the progress of implementation. The 10-point agenda we have been taken through is something that can not end. It will continue from today to 2027 and will go on because it's life,” Oburu said.

Oburu told a joint ODM-UDA Parliamentary Group meeting in Nairobi that even if the Agnes Zani-led taskforce tenure expires, the 10-point agenda did not give birth the BBG.

The BBG government started long before the 10-point agenda. It can not depend on the 10-point agenda. This was meant to strengthen the BBG arrangement,” he said.

However, ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna, who skipped the meeting, claimed Oburu was misleading the country by trying to manipulate the MoU that created the team.

While attaching excerpts from the MoU signed between Ruto and the late Raila, the Nairobi Senator took issue with Oburu’s remarks that the Zani-led team was meant to give an interim and not a final report.

In the attached page, the Committee was to commence its work immediately and submit progress reports to the principals every two months, and to a joint ODM-Kenya Kwanza PG on a quarterly basis.

The PG had its first meeting on August 18, 2025, with a final comprehensive report detailing the status of the MU’s implementation to be released to the public on March 7, 2026, to mark the one-year anniversary of its signing.

“Baba, they have woken up today to mock your Legacy while swearing in your name. You do not have to be an English Professor to understand what Baba wanted. It’s there in black and white. Progress reports to him every two months, and a final report to the Public last Saturday. Now they are putting words in a dead man’s mouth. Give us a signal, Jakom!” Sifuna wrote on his Facebook page.