Raila Odinga's ODM Party has formed a new team to help it in voter registration after the IEBC on Monday announced results showing that the Opposition strongholds lagged behind in the ongoing registration exercise.
Speaking on Tuesday to a local daily, ODM chairman John Mbadi announced that the Orange Party had formed Ward Committees to mobilise their supporters in Nyanza and other key strongholds to turn out and register.
Mr Mbadi stated that Odinga and other leaders from Nyanza region were not impressed by the low numbers adding that the new team would help mobilise voters at ward levels.
"We have observed that the numbers are not so good and that is why we are resorting to the ward committees to help with the mobilisation process.
"We have looked at the strategies that we have been adopting and we believe that this strategy will help increase the number of people registering as voters," Mr Mbadi disclosed.
The committees will be headed by Members of Parliament (MPs) who will supervise the registration exercise.
On Tuesday, new IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati announced that in the last two weeks of registration, the electoral body had registered 1,539, 879 out of the targeted six million.
Mr Chebukati stated that Nairobi and Kiambu were leading in the registration exercise followed by other Counties: Nairobi (182,265), Kiambu (106,223), Nakuru (77,970), Meru (67,665) and Mombasa with 55,967 new voters.
The Chairman said that Vihiga, Nyeri, Kisii, Kericho, Kakamega, Siaya and Kitui counties had registered the least number of new voters.
