Kisumu Jubilee Aspirants cry foul after President’s visit.

By DICKSON ODHIAMBO.

April 19, 2017.

Kisumu Jubilee Aspirants cry foul after President’s visit.

A section of Jubilee Party aspirants in Kisumu County are a crying lot after they claim that they were denied access to the State Lodge in Kisumu during the President’s visit on Tuesday.

Led by the Kisumu County Jubilee Chairperson Atieno Otieno, the aspirants claim that some people purporting to be the party’s aspirants in various positions within the county were allowed in instead of them who are the ‘genuine’ aspirants.

Addressing the press at Police Officers’ Mess in Kisumu after the President Kenyatta’s visit in the Lake side City, the aspirants claim that some individuals at the Party’s Headquarters are allegedly colluding with a Senator in Nyanza region together with another notable aspirant in Kisumu to frustrate them.

They claim that they stayed at the State Lodge’s gate for more than two hours before gaining gaining entry into the facility when the President visited it on Tuesday this week.

Otieno who is also an aspiring Governor in Kisumu County on a Jubilee Party Ticket, claim that a parallel list was presented to the State Lodge without their names.

“I and my team had to stand by the gate for two hours even though my name was on the list but I could not go inside the State Lodge leaving my team outside” she says.

Otieno says when their time to meet the President at the State Lodge came, they could not do so because another list was read and their names were missing hence missed the opportunity to meet the Head of State.

Otieno claims that the Jubilee Party Headquarters keeps on sending people as regional Party’s Coordinators and this is allegedly confusing the party’s supporters in the region because they do not know who is really in charge of the party at the grass root level.

“If the party headquarters are sending some people as regional coordinators then they should give us a letter towards that effect and we will now know who they are but keeping on sending people here as it’s the Jubilee Party coordinators without our knowledge is really confusing us,” she adds.

She adds that they were validly elected in the office last December and it is time for them to work and not to quarrel with anybody.

They appeal to the President as the Jubilee Party Leader to intervene and save the situation, adding that they are the people at the ground who will help in mobilizing votes for the party at the grass root level.

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