UDA to spend half a billion on the nomination
https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2022-04-04-rutos-uda-to-splash-sh500-million-on-nominations/Under the plan, UDA will hire 100,000 polling station clerks, 128 constituency presiding officers and 47 returning officers to manage next Thursday's high-stakes countrywide primaries.
The party has printed 45 million ballot papers for the internal party face-off in at least 12 counties, 128 constituencies and 892 wards.
UDA will hold primaries for governor in 12 counties, for Senate in 19 counties and for Woman Representative in 27 counties.
Ruto on Monday reiterated he has been supervising the printing of ballot papers in the last two days. He said he will remain in control of the process to the very end to ensure it is foolproof.
“We will ensure free, fair and democratic nominations,” Ruto said.
The DP last month said UDA had registered seven million members countrywide, putting it among the top political parties, including ODM and Jubilee.
The Star has established that results from the polling stations will be transmitted simultaneously to the constituency and county tallying centres through a seamless digital platform run by UDA.
The results will then be relayed to the National UDA Command Centre at the Hustler National Centre where the DP and the elections board will be based.
“The transmission will mirror the transmission of the national elections results and will serve as a test run for our elections transmission infrastructure,” a senior UDA official said.
