An aspirant for Kiambu Town parliamentary seat Mercy Mathai has accused her party leader Moses Kuria of issuing direct nomination tickets for his Chama Cha Kazi (CCK) party to preferred candidates.

Mercy Wamathai came out and emotionally narrated her ordeal at CCK after Kuria sent her a WhatsApp message asking her to step down from the Kiambu Town parliamentary race without taking part in the party primaries.

To add insult to her injuries, Wamathai said apart from Kuria asking her to shelve her pursuit of the Kiambu Town parliamentary seat, he asked her to continue funding CCK and his gubernatorial bid.

“He sent me a WhatsApp message… it was devastating to me because without even being subjected to a nomination process, he told me to step down from the race and instead he had the audacity of asking me to fund the party and in return if he succeeded as the governor he would offer me a job at the county,” Wamathai said.

However, Wamathai could not be enticed by the county job and turned down Kuria’s offer.

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The emotional aspirant also said Kuria’s actions contravene the Constitution and the Political Parties Act.

She called for an investigation into the party’s nomination processes.

“What Honourable Moses Kuria did contravenes so many provisions under the Constitution and under the Political Parties Act. I want to invite the relevant bodes to carry out investigations as to the manner in which those processes are being conducted in parties,” she said.

Wamathai further disclosed even the handpicked aspirants are not out of the woods as yet because according to her, they are still required to pay the nomination fees.

"As recently as this morning, I got very many phone calls... They are now telling me that regardless of whether you have been handpicked, soon you will be required to pay the nomination fees," Wamathai added.

The normally vocal Kuria has remained mum on the matter, even on his vibrant social media pages he is yet to issue any statement on the allegations by the parliamentary aspirant.