Voter transfer as Jubilee plots to turn tables in battle for Nairobi

Nairobi gubernatorial aspirants Dennis Waweru (MP Dagoretti South), Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko, Bishop Margaret Wanjiru and nominated MP Johnson Sakaja during the Jubilee Party membership recruitment launch at Kasarani Stadium, Nairobi on Friday.

Jubilee Party’s scramble for Nairobi governor’s seat has triggered a massive voter importation into the city to the tune of 166,000 voters by Tuesday this week.

Sources at the Independent, Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) say of all 134,670 new voters registered in Nairobi by June 30, last year, some 104,4039 (74.6 per cent) were transfers – popularly referred to as voter importation - from another place to the city.