Top political parties were on Saturday night racing against time to beat the midnight deadline for submitting the names of their nominees to the senate, the National Assembly and county assemblies even as it emerged that top party officials, sitting and former MPs as well as trade unionists were dominating the lists.
Even as Jubilee and the opposition kept the full list a closely guarded secret to avoid leakage to rivals, the Nation established that among those whose names will be submitted to be considered for nomination after the August elections are Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) secretary- general Wilson Sossion, ODM secretary-general Agnes Zani, her Amani National Congress (ANC) counterpart Godfrey Osotsi as well as Starehe MP Maina Kamanda.
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