Kenya: Trouble is looming over ODM nomination in civic by-election in Kajuku East Ward of Kisumu Municipality

Reports Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City.

The controversy ridden ODM preliminary nomination scheduled to be held on Monday October 17, 2011 following allegations and claims that official of the Biwott’s led National Vision Party of Kenya have infiltrated the party rank and files.

Fear persist that NVP party official in Kisumu Town East is the man who is likely to clinch the ODM ticket. The allegation goes that the man George Onyango Ondere whose campaign is well oiled and as result other genuine ODM branch officials in the area have now been compromised.

Ondere’s camp has, however, discounted the rumor that he was associated with the Biwott’s party. They have insisted that hi opponents are only panicking after they have sensed the inevitable defeat, and hence branding as an NVP mole in the ODM.

Other sources in Mamboleo Kajulu have confirmed that Ondere is a close associate of Eliud Aum Ndalo who is closely associated with Biwott’s party and that Ondere is always operating and conducting his businesses in Eldoret town and has always been seen walking side by side with the power man {Biwott}

A group of ODM youths and members have vowed that they would disrupt the nomination unless the ODM headquarters intervenes. They have appealed to the chairman of the ODM’s board of election, Eng.Phillip Okund,i urging him to reschedule the nomination date so that the party members could sit together, brainstorm and pick up the right person.

A group of party members and leaders in Kajulu have written to the party headquarters challenging faulting the Monday nomination saying it would only benefit non-party members and that there be a proper consultation before the preliminary so that people whose loyalties have been tested as genuine party members were picked up to contest the preliminary.

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