ODM says no primaries for Migori Senate seat

ODM leader Raila Odinga (right) and Senate Speaker Ken Lusaka during the burial of the late Migori Senator Ben Oluoch at Kanyimach village in Migori county on July 09. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Raila Odinga’s ODM party has ruled out conducting primaries for Migori Senate by-election slated for October 8.

Instead, ODM says it will invoke an internal party rule that gives its National Executive Committee Board (NEC) a leeway to handpick the candidate.