The aspirants, who would now be required to dig deeper into their pockets to finance campaigns for the repeat exercise, say the rescheduling of the nominations has extra financial needs. Tough contest“Campaigns are a very expensive exercise and we have spent enormous amounts of resources moving up and down,” she said. “A lot of resources were spent and although I don’t want to fault the party leadership, the exercise in Kieni was incident free. I had already won but I’m ready for a repeat exercise,” said Kanini. Logistical problemsEphraim Maina, who is eyeing the Nyeri senatorial seat, said he was ready for the repeat exercise.

Source: Standard Digital April 22, 2017 21:00 UTC