| Updated Mon, May 8th 2017 at 12:32 GMT +3Nominated Member of Parliament Oburu Oginga has withdrawn his application to the East African Legislative Assembly. Oburu, who had been nominated through the ODM party, said he declined the nomination after consultations and that he would hence forth focus on campaigning for his younger brother NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga. “After consultations with my family and my own conscience, I have decided to drop my application for EALA seat,” said Oburu at a press briefing in Mombasa. Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim is also battling it out for the one slot allocated to Wiper Party. Kenya has nine slots in the regional Assembly to be shared among Jubilee (five), ODM (two), Wiper Party (one) and others (one).

Source: Standard Digital May 08, 2017 09:17 UTC