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ODM bows to demands for nominations for hotly contested seats

ODM national chairman John Mbadi. [David Njaaga, Standard]

ODM party has bowed to pressure from aspirants and is now scheduled to conduct nominations through universal suffrage for hotly contested seats.

The Raila Odinga-led party kicked up a storm over its decision to use consensus and opinion polls to issue direct tickets to contestants in their strongholds. To avert a fallout, ODM national chairman John Mbadi said the party will subject aspirants eyeing various seats across the country to nominations in areas where consensus has failed.

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