[ODM party leader, and National Super Alliance (Nasa) presidential candidate, Raila Odinga. Photo/the-star]
A week after he was announced the National Super Alliance (Nasa) presidential candidate, Raila Odinga's party, plans to welcome him.
The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party will Friday 5, May, unveil the party leader, formally as its presidential flag bearer.
Dubbed the ODM National Delegates’ Convention, the event will be held at the Kasarani Gymnasium, at the Moi International Sports Centre, Nairobi.
Delegates from across the 47 counties, Raila's technocrats and political friends, will be in attendance.
ODM Executive Director Oduor Ong’wen told the Star, that all the Nasa principals had as well been invited to attend.
Known as 'Baba' or 'Tinga', Raila will officially be nominated by the ODM delegates, to carry the party's and Nasa's flag high, as he seeks to battle it out with incumbent president Uhuru Kenyatta, in the race for State House.
''Because of the timing, we might not be able to have that [the international guests], although we sent invitations. This is coming in on the heels of many momentous events. We have just had the NASA process being concluded, we have just had our primaries, which are still at the appeals stage. So we didn’t so much focus externally this time round,'' Ong’wen told the Star.ODM Women’s League, national officials of the ODM Youth League, members of the National Elections Board, ODM governors and all officials, and the Majority and Minority leaders of the County Assemblies are also expected to attend.