Following his loss to Mombasa
Governor Hassan Joho’s cousin, Said Abdalla Saido, in a highly contentious
nomination exercise, Nyali parliamentary aspirant Mohammed Ali alias Mha Jicho
Pevu tabled his evidence that he was rigged out of the ODM party nominations.
Speaking during a live television interview, Moha accused Joho and his family
colluding with county employees to rig the nominations. According to Ali, voter
suppression occurred when only 5 out of 15 polling stations were active, and
the five were in Saido’s stronghold.
The five stations begun allowing
voters in at 6 am and the other 10 begun allowing them in at 3 pm. I had to go
there and check what was happening because they were in my stronghold. I also
discovered they had different registers from what was being used in mine,” said
Ali as quoted on NTV on Monday, April 24. Apparently, ODM officials involved in
the exercise were also county officials carrying out orders from the county
government. “If you look at the places he was working on, I beat Saido in his
own turf. Police arrested two guys n got pre-marked papers in favour of Saido.
I am told they were over 2,600 ballots. The entire Joho family moved around in
cars paying off people to vote against me,” claimed Ali.
He said he has video and picture
evidence of these accusations and is planning on tabling his evidence to the
ODM National Election Board on Tuesday, April 25, to know his next move. He
further claimed the Nyali nominations was a family affair as the Joho family
gave the wrong impression when they all arrived at polling stations, and when
in his capacity as a governor and an ODM official he arrived there in
solidarity with his kin and not the party agenda. In his portfolio of evidence,
he also claimed that Saido had more than 7 returning agents in some polling
stations when the agreed upon numbers among aspirants was two.
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