Raila Odinga’s daughter, Winnie Odinga, has been listed as a potential nominee to the East African Legislative Assembly(EALA).
Winnie has been shortlisted among five other people proposed by the Orange Democratic.
The other five are businessman Suleiman Shahbal, Mohamed Diriye,Timothy Bosire, Beatrice Askul, and Justus Kizito.
The six represent Mombasa, Wajir, Nairobi, Nyamira, Turkana and Kakamega counties.
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In a statement on Wednesday, the party said its selection committee led by deputy party leader Wycliffe Oparanya met on Tuesday and came up with the names.
Kenya has nine seats at EALA.
Five of the nine will go the Kenya Kwanza coalition while four will go to the Azimio la Umoja coalition.
From the four ODM will have two seats while other affiliate parties; Jubilee and Wiper will each get a seat.
A total of 96 people from the Azimio side have shown interest in the seats.
Kenya Kwanza has 145 applicants seeking five slots.
Parliament’s joint Committee on Election of East Africa Legislative Assembly met on Monday for a pre-nomination briefing.
Political parties have until Wednesday(today) to nominate their preferred representatives and return the names to Parliament
Each party is expected to send back a maximum of three names for every position.
This implies that for the nine slots, 27 names will be sent to the committee for vetting.
The committee will file a report and table it in the two Houses for debate and before a vote is taken.
