Cord leader leader Raila Odinga's ODM party plans to clean up its nominations act. These shambolic nominations cost Raila presidential votes and forced popular candidates to ditch ODM and win on other tickets. The party — dogged by chaotic nominations of dubious fairness — aims to hold major nominations in its strongholds six months before the general election on August 8, 2017. The party will commission opinion polls in each area, then hold mini-polls in which party members vote. The second batch of nominations will be held three months before the election in areas where the party is neither too strong nor too weak.

Source: The Star July 04, 2016 03:11 UTC