Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has revealed reasons for shelving his ambitions to become Orange Democratic Movement deputy party leader and instead remain in his current position as the party's Secretary General.

Sifuna said that he aspired to move to the deputy party leader position, terming it as a promotion from his current role. 

However, he pointed out that he was informed that certain positions are deemed to be too vital to the party for a person to vacate and seek another role.

"Increasingly, I'm hearing a lot of discussions about heart, I don't know why or if it's a coincidence because I aspired to move from my position as SG of the party to deputy party leader's position which, in my view, is a promotion," he noted in an interview on Spice FM. 

"But I was given this story about heart, that there are certain positions that are the heart of the party and you cannot vacate to seek others and so on and so forth."

During the interview, Sifuna also responded to allegations that there are simmering cracks within Azimio over the decision for four ODM members to join the government. 

He confirmed that Azimio would stand a better chance in the political future if all members stood united.

The Nairobi Senator reaffirmed that ODM would still execute its role by holding the government to account. 

Further, the ODM SG dispelled rumours that Azimio's Raila Odinga was set to retire should he clinch the African Union Commission chairmanship role. 

He confirmed that the ODM leader would take a break from politics to execute his duties but that did not mean that he would keep off politics in the long run. 

"Politics requires presence on the ground so if you're doing an assignment that is going to take you away from the people to interact with the daily issues, it is possible that you will scale down the level of involvement just by the nature of the role you're taking up, that is not to say you've retired," he noted. 

"Retirement has the connotation that you've abandoned such practice and will never come back. That is not what is happening in this particular situation."

For six years, Sifuna has held the ODM SG role, a position that is crucial for the party's organization and operations. 

Following the nomination of Cooperatives CS Wycliffe Oparanya and his Blue Mining counterpart, Hassan Ali Joho, ODM party named governors Simba Arati and Abdulswamad Nassir and Vihiga Senator Godfrey Osotsi as its deputy party leaders.