Talks have hit a snag
within Jubilee Party's Team Nairobi for a formidable candidate to take on Peter Kenneth in the governor primaries.
Some quit the governor race while others
abandoned the group for Kenneth's camp. Others have decided to go it alone.
The team brings together Senator Mike Sonko, MPs Johnson Sakaja (Nominated), Dennis Waweru (Dagoretti South), and former Starehe MP Margaret Wanjiru.
All the four to take over from incumbent Governor Evans Kidero in the August 8 poll.
But Sakaja bowed out of the race and presented his papers for Nairobi Senator nomination to the party headquarters on Thursday.
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Jubilee Party set Friday, March 17 as the deadline for submission of nomination papers.
Wanjiru told the Star on phone that she submitted her papers for the governor race to the party's head office in the first week of the exercise.
"I was the first person to submit my papers. I do not need to tell everybody that I am taking my papers because I am not anyone’s project," she said.
"I took my papers because I know what I stand for and what Nairobians want."
Wanjiru's son Stephen Kariuki (Mathare MP) took Kenneth to present his nomination papers.
Waweru said that they were still negotiating and that he will have submitted his papers by Friday.
There were reports that he had also bowed out of the race, choosing instead to defend his seat.
"I will submit my papers, probably tomorrow. Whether I will submit papers for governor, MP, Senator or deputy governor will depend on what we agree," he said.
"People should stop this propaganda (that I will defend my seat). What is wrong with me running for Dagoretti South MP again?"
Sonko is yet to submit his papers.
There were reports that police declined to issue him with a certificate of good conduct, one of the
requirements for participating in the nominations.
The Senator's group had opposed Kenneth's entry into the race, calling him "an outsider being brought through the backdoor".
But the former Gatanga MP said he was born and brought up in Nairobi, and that he was ready to face the team during the nominations.
Kenneth tried his hand at the presidency during the March 2013 general election.
He presented his nomination papers on Wednesday.
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