In April, President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee party handed musician-turned politician Kevin Bahati a direct ticket to vie for the Mathare parliamentary seat in the August 9, elections.
Days later, the Jubilee party revoked his nominations and asked the ‘Barua’ hitmaker to withdraw from the race.
Being dissatisfied with the party’s decision, the young politician broke into tears in front of cameras prompting the party to hand him back his ticket.
It has however emerged that Bahati’s woes are far from over after it appeared that the Azimio One Kenya Coalition party could have settled on Anthony Aluoch of ODM to fly their flag in Mathare.
Speaking during a joint delegates meeting of ODM and Jubilee on Monday, June 27, ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna said Bahati was also affected by the ongoing zoning exercise.
“Zoning was done perfectly even here in Mathare we have agreed that it’s an ODM zone. We only have one candidate in Mathare and that is Anthony Oluoch,” Sifuna said.
The outspoken ODM official said that since Bahati has been axed from the race, he will be offered an alternative position in the Azimio-One Kenya coalition party government upon winning the August 9, General Election.
“This young man called Bahati is my younger brother and we will talk. I will make sure that we find him another position within the Azimio government,” he added.
Ministry Of Public Service, Youth And Gender Affairs Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Rachel Shebesh, who was also in attendance asked Bahati to emulate Westlands MP Tim Wanyonyi who shelved his gubernatorial bid in favor of Polycarp Igathe of Jubilee.
“We have talked with Bahati several times asking him to work with us in the larger government. Bahati you are not even at the level of Tim Wanyonyi who dropped his bid to be Nairobi governor, ” Shebesh said.
