Jubilee Women League calls for equal representation of parties in Azimio

The Jubilee Party women league in Mombasa has called for fairness and inclusion of all Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition allied parties in the zoning discourse.

The brigade led by their chairlady Amina Achieng’ Ridhwan said that they had already started activating their networks at the grass roots level to ensure that they deliver maximum votes to Jubilee and Azimio.

“We have started to activate our networks and put in motion plans to ensure that the Jubilee party and the Azimio coalition led by Raila Odinga as our preferred presidential candidate receives the maximum number of votes in Mombasa,” said Ridhwan.

The party has filled candidates in all seats in Mombasa except the governorship and the presidency at the national level.

“We have put structures at the polling station level to ensure we get maximum votes as a party. We are also ready to fully campaign for Raila,” she added.

Her sentiments were echoed by Amina Abdalla the Jubilee woman representative candidate in Mombasa who asked Raila to ensure that the zoning they were talking about would be fair to all parties under the coalition.

Abdalla said that the use of opinion polls had proven not to be accurate because in some areas where candidates perceived to be popular, ended up losing to their opponents during nominations.

“Don’t just focus on opinion polls, look for leaders who have done ground work and can deliver the seats. Most of these polls are paid for and swayed to reflect an already predetermined verdict,” said Abdalla.

She asked Raila to be very keen with the opinion polls issue so as to avoid losing seats in August by presenting weak Azimio candidates.

She added that they were in agreement of presenting one Azimio candidate to avoid splitting votes and were ready to follow the direction issued by the Azimio principles to ensure they deliver a clean sweep to azimio.

“All we ask for is to ensure there is equal representation of all parties in Azimio both at the National ssembly and the county assemblies,” she said.

Former new KCC chairman Yassir Noor who will be taking a second shot at the Nyali parliamentary seat, asked Raila and President Uhuru Kenyatta to ensure that they look for leaders who are tried and tested to avoid defeat.

“As jubilee we used to be against Raila, but now we support him and we want to assure him that we shall do our best to ensure he gets all the votes in Mombasa,” said Noor.

Noor said that they were ready to deliver the presidency to Raila and also deliver seats to their party leader president Uhuru.

He exuded confidence of clinching the Nyali seat which has eluded ODM since 2013.

“Nyali this time round is going to be a Jublee zone with me at the top,” said Noor.

In 2013, Hezron Awiti clinched the seat on a wiper ticket. He decamped to Wiper after losing the ODM ticket to John Mcharo.

In 2017, former KTN and NTV journalist Mohammed Ali clinched the seat as an independent candidate after losing the ticket to Said Abdalla. Ali alleged that he was rigged out of ODM during the nominations.