Jubilee Party is targeting 4.9 million new voter registrations in its strongholds.
On Tuesday, Deputy President William Ruto kick-started the campaign to register more voters when he met hundreds of Jubilee leaders and aspirants from the Kalenjin community residing in 11 counties across the country at his Karen office.
“For us to win in August, we must have numbers and this can only be achieved by asking the people who are eligible to vote to register in large numbers. As you campaign in your respective wards, constituencies or counties, you must mobilise the people to register so as to fully participate in the elections,” he said.
At the same time, Devolution Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri revealed that the Jubilee leadership in Mt Kenya was targeting to register at least 3.3 million fresh voters to boost the chances of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election.
“In Mt Kenya region alone, we have at least 3.3 million people with IDs but they don’t have voters’ cards. These are the people who we will mobilise to take voters cards starting next week,” he said.
While opposition strongholds of Nyanza, Western, Eastern and Coast registered dismal numbers of new voters, it was understood that between April and December last year, the former Central Province region registered 900,000 new voters.
