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Ex-MP and former governor clash in Uhuru campaign team nomination

A party MP who lost his parliamentary seat muck raked at a Sagana River State Lodge meeting called by President Uhuru Kenyatta and eventually shot down the inclusion of a former governor into the two-man presidential campaign coordination team representing candidates who lost in the last elections.

The former MP who ironically comes from the same constituency with his ex-governor is said to have raised a furore when the election for the representatives was called on instructions of the president. "How do you include a known mole in a committee to campaign for Uhuru? How do we know he is not a spy? We must elect other people and not him," the Jubilee hawk is said to have bellowed during the election after the delegates were sent into county groups to elect their representatives.

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