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JOHN MBADI: UDA elections a joke, ODM not worried

Ruto’s first grassroots polls were phoney, they just wrote names down, even those of unregistered boda boda riders who refused.

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by LUKE AWICH

News29 April 2024 - 01:45

In Summary


  • There was no polling station with more than 18 people during UDA polls in Homa Bay.
  • ODM will conduct its elections at appropriate time.
ODM party chairman John Mbadi addresses the media in parliament on March 27, 2024

As the Orange Democratic Movement Party, we are doing elections and the methods of doing elections are different, guided by our Constitution.

People can agree (consensus), you don’t have to force people to go for an election if they agree amongst themselves.

What we have said is that we are doing elections.

By the way, there are no elections that UDA has done as far as I am concerned.

Those people were actually writing names in shops and collecting a few people and holding a kind of rally. That cannot pass for an election.

If you visited the polling stations you would be shocked. There was no polling station that raised more than 18 people at any given time.

There was no election in Homa Bay county for UDA, it was a complete joke and a sham.

There is nothing to worry ODM, especially in Homa Bay where we remain the dominant party.

Have you ever seen anyone who is running away from defending his MCA seat during election? Those were the people who were purporting to lead UDA elections in Homa Bay.

For instance, in Suba South one person was calling people to his home and writing their names. Is that what you want to call elections? There was no election, if you ask me.

Whoever is lying there was election, is cheating himself.

I am aware in some places some UDA officials were chased away while writing names of boda boda riders without their consent.

For us, the polls were postponed because of the rains, otherwise we were ready to proceed.

At appropriate time we will go to the polls and we have insisted that we must strictly follow the register so that only registered members will be able to participate either as voters and candidates.

As officials of the party, we delegated the elections to the National Elections Coordinating Committee (NECC) who are charged with the preparations of the whole exercise.

We do not micromanage the Committee.

We agreed in our meeting that we do not need gadgets for the upcoming elections.

The ODM national chairman spoke to the Star.

 


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