Small parties eye stake in CORD stronghold ahead of next year’s elections

Convection Party of Kenya (CCP) Party Leader Grace Akumu (centre) is flanked by the party's Secretary General Solomon Ouko (left) and Organizing Secretary Hassan M'mbetsa (right) while addressing delegates and the press at Hotel Radiance in Mombasa County on Monday 23rd November 2015. The newly formed political party has come out saying the Jubilee Government is rotten and full of corruption. [Photo/Kelvin Karani/Standard]

The Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) appears to be the target of political parties eyeing the opposition’s Nyanza and Western Kenya strongholds.

And it is not just CORD’s main rivals Jubilee that wants to raid the party. Even smaller parties in the region seem to be lying in wait to woo members of CORD’s affiliate parties in anticipation that the choice of a presidential nominee will result in a fallout among the coalition’s co-principals.