The National Super Alliance (NASA) team is set to meet on Saturday to continue with deliberations on its presidential candidate who will face President Uhuru Kenyatta in the August 8 poll.
According to a report by the Standard, the National Coordinating Committee mandated to pick the flagbearer is about to finalise the process and officially present the name of the candidate.
Sources privy to the proceedings divulged that the 12-member committee was now looking at five possible ways to choose the flagbearer.
Using elimination method, NCC will be gauging the performance of the four co-principals – Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetangula – in previous General Elections.
This will determine whether each has a concrete support base in their stronghold and various parts of the country.
After this, the committee is reportedly set to look at which candidate is able to get support from Jubilee areas in the upcoming polls.
The third criteria the team is said to use will involve scrutinising who of the four is more unlikely to receive support outside his own political bases without support of the other principals.
The fourth elimination category will be to determine who among the hopefuls would not provoke a backlash from Jubilee supporters that would make even the dead rise up to vote.
Finally, the team would then analyse among the leaders who has a chance of getting votes from a bloc and if any of them is not picked, who is likely to draw voter apathy from his stronghold.
It has now emerged that NCC will be ready with a presidential candidate come next week.
