(Photo: Beverlyne Musili/Standard)A top organ of the National Super Alliance (NASA) is set to meet Saturday and pick the Opposition's presidential flag bearer. The National Coordinating Committee (NCC), which is charged with the responsibility of crafting ways to pick the presidential flag bearer, is expected to finalise its mandate by giving the Opposition one candidate who will compete with President Uhuru Kenyatta. Sources within the NCC and the five-member technical committee intimated to The Standard that they had simulated various scenarios to be used to pick their candidate. ALSO READ: Keep off Narok politics, Bomet Governor Ruto toldThis means NASA will have to produce a presidential candidate and the running-mate as well as the composition of cabinet slots as provided in the Constitution. Kirwa, a member of NCC, said the team would finish deliberations on the presidential candidate by next week.

Source: Standard Digital March 09, 2017 21:00 UTC