Ethnic numbers to sway vote in Jubilee stronghold

Chama Cha Mashinani Party Nakuru gubernatorial aspirant Dr Peter Koros (left, pointing) and Nakuru ODM Chairman Peter Ole Osono lead a team of local NASA officials in an inspection tour of Afraha Stadium – Annex in Nakuru on May 13, 2017 ahead of a political rally. [Photo/Suleiman Mbatiah/Standard]

With exactly a month to the August 8 General Election, aspirants from four political parties as well as those vying on an independent ticket scrambling to outdo each other, and it will take the most resolute of them to secure seats in the largely cosmopolitan Nakuru County.

Four political parties — Jubilee, Chama Cha Mashinani (CCM), Kanu and the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) — have all fielded candidates for the gubernatorial, senatorial, Women Representative and Ward Representative positions.