Elite businessmen from Murang'a, together with a top State House official played a key role in choosing Polycarp Igathe as Mike Sonko's running mate in Nairobi governorship race, the Nation can reveal.
Daily Nation has reliably learnt that Mr Sonko was hesitant to take Mr Igathe as his running mate and was keen to pick one from the initial Nairobi team with whom he had worked so hard to repulse the entry of Peter Kenneth into city politics.
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