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UDA, Jubilee aspirants ready to face off in primaries

The moment of truth for political aspirants in UDA and Jubilee has come as the parties start conducting their nominations this week.

The ruling Jubilee party began the exercise on Monday and will run until Thursday, April 22.

The party settled on picking its flag bearers for various wards through consensus.

The Party’s Secretary General Jeremiah Kioni  stated earlier that the party is encouraging aspirants to embrace consensus to avoid the drama associated with nominations.

He, however, stated that the party will issue direct tickets to aspirants who will be seeking to vie for various seats unopposed at a later date.

Jubilee Party mentioned that it will be open to zoning within the Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Alliance so as to ensure the coalition party wins majority of the seats.

President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto greet each other on Jamhuri Day national celebrations at Uhuru Gardens in Nairobi on December 12, 2021

On indirect nomination, Kioni stressed that the party will not issue tickets based on popularity of a candidate, but will employ other parameters.

On the other hand, Deputy President William Ruto-led United Democratic Alliance (UDA) will hold its primaries on Thursday, April 14.

According to UDA’s National Elections Board (NEB) chairman Anthony Mwaura, the nomination for all the wards, constituencies and counties will be held on the same day.

The party said there will be no direct tickets for contestants save for areas where there is a single aspirant.

Aspirants for Governor, Senator and Woman Representative have direct tickets.

President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto greet each other on Jamhuri Day national celebrations at Uhuru Gardens in Nairobi on December 12, 2021

On Saturday, DP Ruto announced that UDA will field Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja as its candidate for the gubernatorial seat.

This is after Bishop Margaret Wanjiru withdrew her bid in favour of Sakaja to run for the city’s senatorial seat. 

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Nominated Senator Millicent Omanga will get the Woman Representative ticket.

Currently, 25 Nairobi MCA hopefuls are eyeing the UDA tickets ahead of the nominations after defecting from Jubilee last month .