The committee, chaired by acting County Secretary Jairus Musumba, was set to meet on Tuesday but the meeting was called off.
This followed orders issued by the High Court on Monday temporarily suspending any planned swearing in of Ms Mwenda as governor.
ODM Director of Elections Mr Junet Mohammed said the party’s central committee will sit on Wednesday to settle on a nominee to present for the deputy governor position for Nairobi County.
Members of the committee already received their invitation to the meeting by the party’s Executive Director Oduor Ong’wen.
“Dear member, notice is here given of a meeting of the Central Committee to be held on Wednesday January 20, 2021 at 9.00 a.m. Venue will be communicated later,” read the communication.
Mr Mohammed said the party has four individuals who have expressed their interest in the position and it is now upon the committee to settle on one name.
Although guarded on the names of the four individuals, reports have been rife that the position could go to party’s Secretary General Edwin Sifuna with former Kasarani MP Elizabeth Ongoro with an outside chance.
“The committee is going to sit today (Wednesday) morning and then present the name of our nominee for the position,” said the Suna East MP.
“We had internally circulated call for interest in the position and we have had many applications. We have four candidates who have shown interest in the position but we don’t want to divulge their names now until the committee makes its decision,” he added.
ODM had warned Jubilee Party it will settle for nothing less than the deputy governor’s position and is ready to bolt out of a handshake deal with the ruling party should they not be assured of the position.
Regarding the preparations for swearing in, Mr Musumba said they called off a planned meeting of the assumption committee on Monday that was to settle on the swearing in date before gazetting the same as a result of the orders by the High Court.
He said they had already set everything in motion for swearing in of Ms Mwenda as the third governor of Nairobi until the court intervened.
The committee provides the procedure and ceremony for the assumption of the office of the Governor by a Governor-elect.
“We were to sit Tuesday morning but because of the injunction, we called off the meeting as we await for directions from the courts,” said Mr Musumba.
On Monday, the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and Kenya Human Rights Commission on Monday went to court seeking to block the 40-year-old from becoming Nairobi County boss saying her last week’s hurried swearing in as deputy governor was unconstitutional.
Under certificate of urgency, the petitioners alleged that the development is a calculated political move to avoid a by-election in Nairobi undermining the right of Nairobi people to elect a Governor and Deputy Governor of their choice.
High Court judge Justice Anthony Mrima referred the matter to the acting Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu to form a bench of judges to expend the matter on January 28, 2021.
“That pending orders of the multi-bench and with a view to maintaining the prevailing status quo, a temporary injunction be and is hereby issued restraining the respondents, their agents or servants from swearing in Anne Kananu Mwenda as the Governor of Nairobi City County government, pending the hearing and determination of the application,” read in part the order.
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