150,315 registered voters in Embakasi south constituency are expeted to head back to the ballot following a by election that was announced after the Supreme ourt ordered fresh elections holing that incumbent Julius Mawathe wasnot duly elected on August 8, 2017.
The case was built on grounds that some KIEMS kits in three polling stations failed, hence made it difficult to verify the participant voters.
This raised hopes for ODM’s Irshad Sumra hopes of returning to parliament.
The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party has cleared Irshad Sumra to vie for the Embakasi South parliamentary seat in the upcoming by-election slated for April 5, 2019.
Sumra was handed the ODM ticket on Wednesday at the Orange party headquarters in Nairobi.
He is set to face off with Julius Mawathe who was also handed a direct ticket by the Wiper Party led by Kalonzo Musyoka.
Kalonzo had asked ODM to withdraw its candidate in line with the unity spirit of the NASA coalition, but the Raila Odinga-led party remained adamant insisting that it would field a candidate for the race.
Do you think the two candidates will cause a huge rift in NASA?