Nairobi, April 8 -- Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has returned to the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal, seeking urgent protection against a fresh push to remove him as Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) secretary-general.

In an application filed under certificate of urgency, Mr Sifuna has asked the tribunal to halt the implementation of a February 11 party resolution that ousted him and to suspend ongoing disciplinary proceedings initiated by ODM.

He says the party has embarked on "an irregular and fatally flawed process for a predetermined disciplinary action" against him, despite earlier tribunal directions that the dispute be resolved internally.

Sifuna moved to the tribunal after ODM chairperson Gladys Wanga wrote to him last ...