The Jubilee Party now wants Kenyans to pay the party's nominations set to be carried out by the national electoral body, IEBC.
Addressing a press conference on Tuesday at the Party's headquarters in Pangani Nairobi, the national assembly leader of majority Aden Duale disclosed that the party has directed its secretariat to engage the national treasury in order for the treasury to fund the process.
''The party's primaries will be funded by the exchequer, we have already asked our secretariat to engage the treasury on the matter,'' said the Garissa township lawmaker.
This means that the money to conduct the nominations is likely to come directly from the taxpayers' pockets, a contradiction to an earlier statement made by the President saying that the party will source its own money to conduct the primaries.
''We will look for money to pay the IEBC to conduct our primaries so that all our candidates and Kenyans get a fair nomination,'' said President Kenyatta during the launch of the party two months ago.
The sudden change of mind has attracted mixed reactions from different quarters with the rival coalition CORD bashing Jubilee.
In a statement sent to KTN on Monday, Mombasa County senator Hassan Omar opposed the decision, terming the Jubilee Party as 'financially stranded' despite having started on a very high note.
On the other side, the opposition block CORD has ruled out any possibilities of having the electoral body conduct its primaries citing shortage of funds.