[Jubilee Party leader president Uhuru Kenyatta receives a certificate from Frontier Alliance Party (FAP) leader Marsabit governor Ukur Yattani during a Special National Delegates Conference, May 4, 2017. Photo/PSCU]
The Frontier Alliance Party (FAP) has endorsed president Uhuru Kenyatta’s candidature for the August 8, polls.
The Jubilee-affiliated which is led by Marsabit governor Ukur Yattani, resolved to support Uhuru's re-election bid, during a Special National Delegates Conference whose main agenda was to pick a presidential candidate. Close to 1,000 delegates attended the special event, in Nairobi.
While reading the resolution, governor Yattani said FAP would field candidates for all other elective posts across the country but support Kenyatta for the position of president.
“The special National Delegates Conference resolved that the party (Frontier Alliance Party) will not field a presidential candidate but will instead support the candidature of H.E. Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, the President of the Republic of Kenya and the presidential candidate for the Jubilee Party in the forthcoming general election,” the resolution read in part.
It was the first Jubilee-affiliate to pass such a resolution.
Jubilee Party will hold its own special delegates conference in Nairobi, Saturday May 6, to formally announce its ticket of president Kenyatta and Deputy president William Ruto.
A number of other parties are also expected to hold their delegates conferences on Saturday morning to take similar decisions, before joining the Jubilee Party meeting at the Bomas of Kenya later on Saturday.