Mwakwere re-elected Matuga MP
Mr Ali Chirau Mwakwere has recaptured his Matuga Parliamentary seat. This means the Matuga MP-elect could be headed back to his yet to be occupied Cabinet office at Transcom House following his strong show at the by-election.
Mwakwere, a PNU candidate, garnered 16,350 votes to beat his closest rival, Mr Hassan Mwanyoha of ODM who secured 10,887 votes.
With his re-election, Matuga residents can only wait and see if Kibaki would give Mwakwere back his seat — something that he used to fire up his campaigns.
Coming in third place after Mwanyoha was UDM candidate Kassim S Tandaza who secured 5,165 votes.
The former Transport Minister, whose election was nullified by court in February, campaigned for re-election on the platform of continuity and promotion of Digo ‘nationalism’ and communal interest. He also spiced up his campaigns with a plea for re-election for the sake of retaining the ministerial flag, which he told voters had been reserved for him.
The votes were counted on site and relayed to the tallying centre using the new electronic technology Interim Independent Electoral Commission was testing in Matuga.
Except for two isolated incidents of violence, the by-election was trouble free to the finish line. In the first case a former Malindi civic leader was shot and seriously injured by suspected political hirelings. In the second case, five people were roughed up and frisked on the night preceding elections. The attackers in top-of-the-range vehicles waylaid them as they drove to Ukunda from Kwale and burned their Subaru car.
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