Cord leader Raila Odinga has called on residents of Nyanza and other regions to register as voters in larger numbers ahead of next year's polls.

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Mr Odinga who is planning to make his fourth stab at the Presidency appealed to Kenyans to back his Presidential bid by registering as voters.

The former Premier said the new law on electoral reforms will create a level playing field in the next year's polls and that he is optimistic that his victory will not be 'stolen' again by Jubilee.

"We are glad that a lot of electoral reforms are taking place right now and we will not have the surprises of the dead people coming back to life to vote during the 2017 General Elections," he said in Dandra village in Ugenya constituency on Saturday during the burial of veteran journalist David Ohito's mother.

According to the ODM leader, should all people in Nyanza region, his political backyard register as voters, they will have more numbers than Jubilee Party.

He said Ugenya alone has 30,000 unregistered voters while Ugunja has the same figure which translates to 60,000.

Nyanza residents have in the past been accused of not voting, a trend that the Cord leader wants to avoid during next year's elections which will be Raila's defining moment of his bumpy political career.