Chaos as Jubilee primaries stall in Taita Taveta

Voters wait to cast their ballots at Timbila Primary School polling station on Friday. [Renson Mnyamwezi, Standard]

Jubilee leaders, led by Taveta MP Naomi Shaban, Friday demanded suspension of the party's primaries in Taita Taveta County, citing late arrival of election materials and claims of rigging.

By 4.30pm Friday, voting had not begun in most of the county's polling stations due to late arrival of ballot materials, even though voters started arriving as early as 5am. In Wundanyi constituency, only ballot papers for parliamentary aspirants were printed and delivered, while in Taveta, no declaration forms were delivered at the constituency's 21 polling stations even after the arrival of other materials, amid a shortage of ballot papers.