Makueni senator Mutula Kilonzo Junior has urged the technical committee working on procedures of endorsing National Super Alliance (NASA) presidential flag bearer to expedite its work and unveil a flag bearer.
The senator warns that delay in naming flag bearer could cost NASA votes ahead of the August polls.
According to the Makueni senator, it is time for NASA to unveil its candidate to consolidate its support base ahead of the August polls.
Speaking in Wote Town on Sunday, the Wiper senator said that NASA risks losing out supporters by delaying to name its presidential flag bearer.
“The technical committee working on how to endorse and unveil NASA flag bearer should move with speed and give us a candidate,” he said as quoted by the Star.
The Wiper senator said that Jubilee Party is taking advantage of NASA’s delay in naming its presidential flag bearer to ‘eat’ up and woo support in NASA’s perceived strong zones.
The senator at the same time asked NASA principals to support the candidate that will be endorsed as flag bearer.
Kilonzo Junior said that NASA’s unity will help it send Jubilee government packing in the August general election.
“We (NASA) must be ready to support the candidate who will be endorsed; whether it is Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, Moses Wetangula or Musalia Mudavadi,” he said. The senator urged voters to rally behind NASA in the August general elections.
NASA is under pressure to unveil its candidate ahead of the polls.
All the NASA principals are eyeing the alliance ticket to contest against President Uhuru Kenyatta and others in the August polls.
There have been speculations of possible fallout in NASA over who should be endorsed as flag bearer with claims that Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka might bolt out to Jubilee Party or contest as an independent candidate.
During a rally in Mathare on Friday, NASA leaders allayed fears of fallout saying that they will remain united to the end.
The NASA leaders said that they are determined to send President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee government packing in the August polls.
Sources say that NASA presidential candidate might be unveiled before the end of this month.