CORD leaders disagree on vote list funding plan

From left are CORD leaders Kalonzo Musyoka, Raila Odinga and Moses Wetangula

The three principals of the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) have been unable convince governors from their strongholds to fund the mobilsation of its supporters to register as voters. Details have emerged about how a meeting pursuing this agenda ended in a stalemate. The governors were asked to raise Sh250,000 from wards in areas perceived to be CORD strongholds, but they countered that if they are to do is, they should be given direct nomination as incumbent candidates without having to pay the Sh1 million nomination fees.

Before the two-day meeting began on February 13, governors from the Nyanza region met the CORD principals at Raila Odinga’s Kisumu home for debriefing before going into conference as colleagues from far flung counties streamed in.