'We won't drop out': Azimio faces tough test as candidates defy calls to drop bid

Former Rarieda MP Nicholas Gumbo with his running mate David Ohito after being cleared by IEBC in Siaya on June 4th 2022. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition is facing a Herculean test in its bid to convince some of its troops in Nyanza to drop their bids in favour of other candidates.

Reacting to the decision to force some candidates out in order to give the coalition’s strongest candidates a better chance, some maintained they would not shelve their ambitions.