Nairobi, April 24 -- President William Ruto's United Democratic Alliance (UDA) has put elaborate plans in place for its ambitious grassroots elections starting on Friday, in which at least 190,000 candidates will be seeking positions.

In the first phase covering five counties; Nairobi, Narok, West-Pokot, Busia and Homa Bay, the party is making final plans to deliver election materials in 2,337 polling centres by tomorrow.

The ruling party has procured 10,000 tablets to facilitate electronic voting, designed to deliver a credible exercise.

Official data by the party shows 189,638 UDA registered members have applied to contest for the 20 positions declared vacant at the 27,397 polling centres spread across the country.

The number is exp...