The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party had handed back the Sh2.25 million that had been collected from its hopefuls for the Kibra parliamentary seat, it has emerged.
The party reportedly refunded the money to the 9 aspirants after it was revealed that some top members of the Secretariat bungled the nominations, denying them justice.
Consequently, an angry party leader Raila Odinga ordered that the group be refunded on Wednesday, after Tuesday meeting where he expressed his fury to the said officials.
The same has been confirmed by former hopefuls of the party ticket which has since been awarded to Imran Okoth, who said that they have received their Sh250,000 back.
The nomination manipulation, Raila said on Monday, was done through striking out of members names from the voter registry, to lock them out of the primaries.
“Mr Odinga acknowledges that there were challenges in the nominations, with names missing from the voter register but those were not tailored or deliberately introduced to favour or disenfranchise any aspirant,” he said through his spokesman Dennis Onyango.
The party has picked Makadara MP George Aladwa to head Imran's campaigns, with Raila set to meet Imran's campaign team at the AIC Olympic in Kibra on Tuesday (today).
On Monday, through his spokesman Dennis Onyango, Mr Odinga, who admitted that there could have been a few hitches, dismissed claims that he scolded the Secretariat.