The former Kitutu Masaba MP and ODM Treasurer had arrived at John Oroo Oyioka's residence the previous evening to offer his condolences.
The gathering was solemn, but the room was political, and a question had been trailing Bosire for days.
When the movement to push Edwin Sifuna out of the ODM Secretary General seat was gaining momentum, Bosire's vote was not among those calling for his head. In a party that reads every signal, that gap had not gone unnoticed.
He addressed it without being pushed. Standing before those gathered, he said the right to think differently is not a privilege extended selectively it belongs to everyone, and it does not expire when the majority leans another way.
He made no attempt to dress the explanation in party language or soften it for the room. His position had been his own, arrived at through his own reasoning, and he was not going to manufacture regret for it after the fact.
He was equally straightforward about what he felt toward Sifuna. There was no residue of bitterness in what he said, no language that suggested a deeper grudge dressed in polite words.
He told those present that he prays for Sifuna's success, that whatever the man turns to next, he hopes it goes well for him. The disagreement had been about a vote, not a person, and Bosire was not interested in letting it become something uglier than that.
He also addressed Fred Matiang'i, whose entry into the political field has been the subject of much discussion since his exit from government. Bosire's welcome was genuine but grounded.
He told Matiang'i plainly that he had stepped into territory that offers no guarantees and respects no former titles.
The ground is the same for everyone who walks onto it. He urged him to carry that understanding forward, especially when given responsibility and to lead without the reflex to look down on others, because the political space has a way of levelling people that no office ever does.
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