Chaos erupted at a Jubilee party aspirants’ meeting in Bomet town today after sharp divisions emerged between some aspirants and officials from the party.
Two national elections board members led by Leah Ntimama who had attended the meeting to try and resolve the dispute over the failed nomination exercise differed sharply over who should take blame.
The party’s Bomet branch chairman Bernard Mutai and aspirants had on Thursday night unanimously resolved to call off the exercise until Tuesday next week and over logistical issues and alleged insufficient ballot papers.
And, even as the party’s national top brass announced yesterday morning that the exercise will not be rescheduled, Mutai told off the party’s secretary General Raphael Tuju and went ahead to convene an aspirants’ meeting to deliberate on the issue.
The duo had to scamper for their safety as enraged aspirants ejected them out of the meeting.
Trouble started when Ntimama who had been given an opportunity to give details over the anomalies over the bungled exercise sought to absolve herself from any blame.
Responding to a question posed by gubernatorial aspirant Julius Kones, Ntimama questioned the role the county party chair Bernard Mutai had in the calling off the exercise yet he was not a member of the county election board.
A visibly angry Ntimama said, “Don’t shout at me…I also do not know what the chairman, whom I respect most, is doing here yet we have the county elections board team.”
The remark rubbed most aspirants led by Konoin MP Sammy Koech and Chepalungu’s Paul Savimbi the wrong way who asked her to apologize but in vain before other aspirants surged to the main dias to eject them