Political parties are busy nominating
their representatives for the various posts today to meet IEBC deadline
tomorrow, the posts are more this time round because of the new constitution.
County Representatives
Women Representatives
Senators
Governors
Members of Parliament
In the previous years elections nominations
were marred by rigging and violence, this time police have been deployed to all
polling stations but by midday most polling stations had not received voting
papers, some parties have postponed to tomorrow nominations especially for big
parties are normally disorganized, because they have many candidates fighting
for the posts compared to the smaller parties. It is always easier to get
nominations from the smaller parties than the big parties like those of CORD
& TNA coalitions. This is because once one gets a nomination from those
parties in the regions they are strong, one is assured of winning the seat in
the general elections.
Looking at Kenyan politics and
nominations, I normally feel pity on new candidates entering politics for the
first time and putting their money in the big parties like ODM, TNA, URP,
WIPER, FORD KENYA, UDF etc…. then end up losing to the big names. It’s smoother
with the small parties like Eagle Coalition, FPK, Sisi kwa Sisi etc… Narc Kenya
did theirs peacefully.
Many expectations, disappointments
and defection will be seen, it’s the first nomination after the new
constitution so we cannot expect it to be perfect. Waiting to see how things
turn out.
