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Why IEBC should learn from Kenya’s great political parties

IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati and CEO Ezra Chiloba during a press conference on January 31

This week marks a great milestone in our journey to the promised land of party democracy. I have watched with great admiration, as the political parties put up a historic show of thoroughly well organised primaries. Of course I understand the small problems the parties have had to handle.

ODM for instance has been forced to live with the current governor of Busia after its preferred candidate Paul Otuoma requested to be allowed to run as an independent. ODM leaders must be very unhappy because Otuoma snubbed the repeat polls even after the party assured him that he would also be allowed to include ghosts in his list of voters in the re-run.

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