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Raila urges supporters to register in high numbers

Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga is unhappy with the slow pace his supporters are turning out to register as voters.

Alarmed by the poor turn out in the first week of the exercise, Raila said it would be futile to press on with his presidential bid if his supporters were not registering.

 “This thing is not a joke. Do you want me to stop? If you do not register as voters then there is no need for me to contest,” he said.
 
The ODM chief said increased number of voters in his support bases will strengthen his bid and make his partners from other parts of the country, take him seriously. He observed that some people wanted gifts before enlisting as voters and termed it as embarrassing.

“You are even embarrassing me. We have records and by yesterday in Kisumu for example, only 3,000 people had registered as voters,” he said.

He decried the a snail’s pace at which the residents are registering and declared the apathy witnessed in some areas unacceptable and embarrassing. Speaking during the burial of Dr Odhiambo Olel, a former physician to his father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Raila said an increased vote basket will boost his presidential bid.

“We want our people to enlist as voters in large numbers. It is being said but people are not taking it seriously,” said Raila.

Since the start of the exercise, only a handful of people have turned up for the exercise with most registration stations set up by the electoral body, deserted. In some, only IEBC officials passed time as they waited to no avail for potential new voters.





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