Mombasa governor aspirant Suleiman Shahbal has challenged the orange democratic party (ODM) not to interfere with the party nomination process in the county.

According to Shahbal the party should let members from the county to decide on who will fly the party flag in the coming election.

Shahbal's camp has protested a plan to postpone nominations in Mombasa and wants party leader Raila  Odinga to intervene and reject the handpicking of leaders in the party nominations for Mombasa governor.

"Nobody is going to play games for us, the people of Mombasa will decide, this tendency of of handpicking leaders we will not accept," said Shahbal

Panic has gripped Shahbal camp after ODM said they had done a poll in February and March months and the polls were in favor of his gubernatorial opponent Mvita Mp Abdulswamand Nassir.

According to reports from Shahbal camp, ODM has initiated boardroom polls and the  latest poll showed that Shahbal had 26 percent and Nassir was 37 percent, while Hisham Mwidau a senatorial aspirant had 26 percent and 37 percent going to Mohamed Faki.

"We have seen a lot of activities from our party and we are not happy with the postponement of nominations, we don't want a situation where people will jump from our camp should we fail to get a nomination," said Old town MCA.

According to Hisham Mwidau,a senator aspirant who is backing businessman Suleiman Shahbal said they will not accept opinion polls instead it calls for ballot decision.

"We are questioning the credibility of the polls  because we feel that they did not follow the poll laws that demand, among other things,to reveal the identity of the pollster," said Mwidau.

According to Mwidau, the ODM party has argued that it will stick to the polls to determine who will Carry the nomination ticket for ODM party and the move has gripped various camps in the gubernatorial contest.

"You will be mis-informed you will be threatened, and the truth of the matter is nobody has been given a direct ticket,they are just spreading rumors so that you can start shifting to other camps," said Mwidau.

Shahbal camp has declared that it will go for nothing short of nomination process through ballot and has dared opponents to to bring it on.

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"Let's stand firm and tell our people not to accept any other form of decision except voting in the ballot to determine who will carry the ticket, we don't believe on opinion polls," he added.

The camp has maintained that it will rally for Raila Odinga in the quest to succeed president Uhuru Kenyatta.