Reports Arrum-Tidi Ogonglo In Kisumu City

An excessively wealthy Kisumu based medical doctor who had declared his intention of vying for the elective position n of County governor in the region has hastily beat the retreat after allegedly being prevailed upon by the ODM leadership in unclear circumstances.

Dr Hezron Makobewa o is the director of the Kisumu based OGRA FOUNDATION AN Ngo which is heavily funded by the UK sources with the support of the British government, however declined to name the emissaries who conveyed the message to him, but multiple source have hinted that the message came from two influential Luo MPs mandarins of the ODM believes to be close to the party leadership.

Dr Makobewa had launched his elaborate campaign strategy and established a secretariat to oversee and spearhead his campaign activities, which he is reported to have quickly dissolved and abandoned.

The medic who was recently appointed by the Heritage and Cultural Minster William Ole Ntimama to head the Council of NGOs hails from Kano Kowuor Kamaaga in what used to be the North East Kano location, which is located between Ahero-Miwani and Masogo within the Kisumu County. He is know to be a astute businessman who runs a chains of medium sizes, but ultra modern hotels facilities in the lakeside City of Kisumu.

Prior to the 2007 general elections an excessively wealthy unnamed and popular Nairobi based business magnate, from Mbita constituency in Suba region of the larger Southern Nyanza was prevailed upon not to contest the Mbita parliamentary seat in a similar fashion.

Multiple sources had revealed that the businessman who is also still working in the public service was posed to inflicting heavy defeat to the Immigration and Registration of Persons Minister Gerald Otieno Kajwang’ the incumbent Mbita MP. The populist and youthful business tycoon reluctantly withdrew his candidature to the chagrins of the electorate and pulled out of politics altogether saying he would concentrate in his civil service job and to improve his chains of businesses spanning from Nairobi to Luo-Nyanza.

Dr Makobewa could not be reached for his immediate comment about the rumor which hit Kisumu city lie tsunami, provoking wholesale condemnation by the electorate in general and his people of the populous Kano clan in particular.

Political pundits and observers alike were quick in terming the ODM action undemocratic and dictatorial which must not be allowed to go on as it is likely to poison the electorate in other electoral areas in the region.

The ODM’s alleged action in preventing the medics fro contesting the election for the Kisumu County governor, which is his constitutional and birthrights is an amounting to a mockery of the essence an tenets of democratic principles.

‘The party must embrace democracy ad stop the bad habit of imposing unpopular candidates on the electorate in Luo-Nyanza and elsewhere countrywide,” said a party operative in Kisumu who requested for his identity to remain anonymous for fear of possible reprisal.

The recently flawed Ndhiwa preliminary nomination of the party candidate I the by-election, which s scheduled for September 17,2012 has exposed a lot of weaknesses in ODM electoral system.

The nomination to fill the vacant Ndhiwa parliamentary seat followed the death of the former are MP Joshua Orwa Ojode in an aircraft accident left close to 60,00 voters disfranchised as they were unable to cast their votes or due to poor logistics and unavailability of election materials to the polling stations and non-arrival of election officials who included clerks and the returning officers in time. This dismal performance by the ODM board of election only facilitated d 7,800 hundred voters in a populous and votes rich Ndhiwa constituency with record registration of close to 85,000 voters.

Whoever won the primary nomination in Ndhiwa does not enjoy the confidence of the majority of the voters who were denied their democratic right of choosing a candidate of their own choice

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