Nairobi County Government is teetering on brink of leadership crisis following a court decision to bar Governor Mike Sonko from office.
This has led to questions being asked on how Jubilee party settled on Sonko as its candidate for Nairobi gubernatorial seat during the 2017 general election.
While defending the party's decision to hand the ticket to Sonko, Jubilee Secretary General Raphael Tuju said that they settled on his as he was very popular as compared to his rivals.
"Sonko's candidature was a bit complicated...We tried our best to ensure that the choice we took was the choice of the people. If we did anything else, we'd be accused of imposing a candidate on the electorate," Tuju said as quoted by the Standard.
The Jubilee party SG who seemed to blame the electorate for electing Sonko said that there was nothing they could do to stop him as he had been cleared by relevant agencies to run for the seat.
"The people were calling out for him. Would you like to blame the party or the people who elected him?" he posed.
Sonko defeated former MPs Peter Kenneth and Margaret Wanjiru in the Jubilee party primaries before facing off with incumbent Evans Kidero in the August 2017 poll, the election he won with a landslide.