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Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>A storm has rocked President William Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance over a controversial formula for picking the party’s nominees to the East African Legislative Assembly.<\/p>\n

The crux of the matter is that candidates have been clustered in five different cohorts from which a single nominee will be selected as the party’s preferred candidate for EALA elections.<\/p>\n

The Star has established that rebellion is brewing in the ruling party with some regions citing betrayal in the EALA selection process ahead of a meeting with Ruto on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

President Ruto is said to have entrusted the responsibility to craft the cohorts to the Parliamentary leadership led by majority leaders Kimani Ichung’wa and Aaron Cheruiyot.<\/p>\n

The proposed model is alleged to have been tailored to give candidates from some regions an upper hand in the selection process ahead of voting on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Parliament is expected to take a vote to pick nine EALA nominees from a list of 27 nominees that were shortlisted by political parties.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is the criteria that was used? Was there balloting? This was a plot to fix some candidates,\u201d lamented a UDA politician aware of the clustering.<\/p>\n

Under the formula, Joel Nyambane, Geoffrey Karobia and Fred Muteti have been clustered in one group.<\/p>\n

A source aware of the clustering said the second cohort has Anne Too, Lilian Tomitom and ex-Nandi Woman Representative Ziporah Kering.<\/p>\n

Yasser Bajaber, former Mombasa senator Hassan Omar and Jonas Kuko are in the third cohort.<\/p>\n

Current EALA member Abdikadir Aden, ex-nominated senator Falhadha Iman and ex-Turkana Woman Representative aspirant Rebecca Lowoiya are in the fourth group.<\/p>\n

The fifth cohort is said to have former nominated MP David Sankok, ex-Igembe Central MP Kubai Iringo and Salim Busidy .<\/p>\n

Ichung’wa denied the reports saying the EALA selections are being managed by Parliament.<\/p>\n

“EALA elections are governed by the EALA rules and we have a committee that has been overseeing the process co-chaired by senator Maanzo and Ho. Wanjiku Muhia,” he said in a text message.<\/p>\n

The President is on Wednesday set to chair a Kenya Kwanza Parliamentary group meeting at State House to whip the members to support the alliance’s line up for EALA.<\/p>\n

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