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<\/div>\nStarehe Member of Parliament (MP) Charles Kanyi, alias Jaguar, won\u2019t seek re-election on the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) ticket.\n<\/p>\n
This is after UDA gave nomination certificate to East African Legislative Assembly MP Simon Mbugua.\n<\/p>\n
Mbugua took to his official Facebook page on Thursday, April 21, to reveal that he\u2019d been awarded the UDA ticket. <\/p>\n
\u201cGod is indeed great. This evening I received my [UDA] nomination certificate. I take this opportunity to thank the great people of Starehe for nominating me,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
Jaguar claims Starehe constituents were denied the opportunity to choose their preferred UDA candidate through the ballot.<\/p>\n
KEEP READING<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/p>\nAccording to Jaguar, UDA used opinion polls to settle on Mbugua. The Starehe MP, however, claims the opinion ratings were skewed in favour of Mbugua.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe people of Starehe were denied their democratic right to go to the ballot again for the nominations and choose their leader. The party decided to carry out opinion polls to decide whom to award the nomination certificate, and it has been done,\u201d Jaguar said on his official Twitter page on Thursday evening.\n<\/p>\n
The lawmaker shared images of what he said were Infotrak poll results that placed him as the most popular aspirant, with a popularity rating of over 30 per cent. Mbugua, as per the polls shared by Jaguar, came second with a popularity rating of eight per cent. <\/p>\n
<\/em> reached Infotrak director Angela Ambitho, who said Jaguar had not commissioned any opinion poll with the firm.\n<\/p>\n\u201cA client had asked us to conduct opinion polls in all the Nairobi sub-counties, and that client was not Jaguar. Maybe the client shared the details with the MP. However, give me time to confirm whether what Jaguar shared on his Twitter page was indeed the outcome of the Infotrak polls in Starehe,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n
<\/em> reached UDA National Elections Board (NEB) chairperson Antony Mwaura, UDA Secretary-General Veronica Maina and UDA\u2019s Director of Communications Wanjohi Githae for comment, but none picked our calls.\n<\/p>\n<\/em> also reached Jaguar for comment. He alleged UDA had made a predetermined decision to settle on Simon Mbugua.\n<\/p>\n\u201cInitially, the party was to hold nominations in Starehe, but the exercise was frustrated as there were some places where ballot boxes arrived late; in some parts, the ballot papers had been marked even before voting,\u201d Jaguar said, stating that the voting exercise was therefore cancelled. <\/p>\n
\u201cUDA is not my personal property. Even if I wanted to fight them through the legal avenues, and they\u2019ve already settled on Simon Mbugua, I\u2019ll only be wasting my time. I am now consulting my supporters on what next for me. Most of them are advising me to run on independent ticket. It\u2019s an option that I could pursue,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cUDA claimed they had hired three opinion poll companies to help the party pick the most popular candidate in Starehe. However, in the opinion polls, the party included some people who were not even seeking UDA ticket; some were members of Jubilee Party. That shows how much the exercise was skewed,\u201d added the legislator.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cUDA denying me an opportunity has surprised most of my supporters, because in Nairobi, I was among the vocal politicians who popularised and defended the party with all their might.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
We also reached Simon Mbugua for comment, but he did not return our calls.\n<\/p>\n
On Twitter, Jaguar claimed that he\u2019d been shortchanged in the race for Starehe UDA ticket, suggesting the party had a predetermined decision on who gets the UDA certificate in Starehe.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cCould this be an outcome of certificates that started making rounds before nominations? Is democracy at stake here? I will be holding discussions with the people of Starehe and decide on the way forward. The voice of the people matters,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
Jaguar officially declared his support for Deputy President William Ruto, who is the leader of UDA Party, in January 2022.\n<\/p>\n
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\u201cA client had asked us to conduct opinion polls in all the Nairobi sub-counties, and that client was not Jaguar. Maybe the client shared the details with the MP. However, give me time to confirm whether what Jaguar shared on his Twitter page was indeed the outcome of the Infotrak polls in Starehe,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n
<\/em> reached UDA National Elections Board (NEB) chairperson Antony Mwaura, UDA Secretary-General Veronica Maina and UDA\u2019s Director of Communications Wanjohi Githae for comment, but none picked our calls.\n<\/p>\n <\/em> also reached Jaguar for comment. He alleged UDA had made a predetermined decision to settle on Simon Mbugua.\n<\/p>\n \u201cInitially, the party was to hold nominations in Starehe, but the exercise was frustrated as there were some places where ballot boxes arrived late; in some parts, the ballot papers had been marked even before voting,\u201d Jaguar said, stating that the voting exercise was therefore cancelled. <\/p>\n \u201cUDA is not my personal property. Even if I wanted to fight them through the legal avenues, and they\u2019ve already settled on Simon Mbugua, I\u2019ll only be wasting my time. I am now consulting my supporters on what next for me. Most of them are advising me to run on independent ticket. It\u2019s an option that I could pursue,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n \u201cUDA claimed they had hired three opinion poll companies to help the party pick the most popular candidate in Starehe. However, in the opinion polls, the party included some people who were not even seeking UDA ticket; some were members of Jubilee Party. That shows how much the exercise was skewed,\u201d added the legislator.\n<\/p>\n \u201cUDA denying me an opportunity has surprised most of my supporters, because in Nairobi, I was among the vocal politicians who popularised and defended the party with all their might.\u201d\n<\/p>\n We also reached Simon Mbugua for comment, but he did not return our calls.\n<\/p>\n On Twitter, Jaguar claimed that he\u2019d been shortchanged in the race for Starehe UDA ticket, suggesting the party had a predetermined decision on who gets the UDA certificate in Starehe.\n<\/p>\n \u201cCould this be an outcome of certificates that started making rounds before nominations? Is democracy at stake here? I will be holding discussions with the people of Starehe and decide on the way forward. The voice of the people matters,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n Jaguar officially declared his support for Deputy President William Ruto, who is the leader of UDA Party, in January 2022.\n<\/p>\n \nShare this story<\/b>\n<\/p>\n Starehe MP Charles Kanyi, alias Jaguar, poses for a picture with DP William Ruto after Jaguar joined UDA on January 24, 2022. [Courtesy of William Ruto] Starehe Member of Parliament (MP) Charles Kanyi, alias Jaguar, won\u2019t seek re-election on the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) ticket. This is after UDA gave nomination certificate to East African […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1063852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3887],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}RELATED VIDEOS<\/span><\/h4><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"