Race for eligible voters by Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga hots up

IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba(right) and IEBC deputy commission secretary Marjan Hussein during a press conference on Mass voter registration. (Photo: Beverlyne Musili/Standard)

President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition leader Raila Odinga have geared up to marshal their supporters to register as voters.

This comes with the revelation that each of their traditional voting blocs constitutes half of the nine million new voters the electoral body is targeting ahead of the August elections.