Githinji Mung'ara of Jubilee Party Wins Muguga ward Seat with 27 Votes
Githinji Mung’ara, the Jubilee candidate for the Muguga ward by-elections, has been named the winner of the recently concluded by-elections with a 27-vote lead.
Gathogo Wanjiru 
The Jubilee candidate Mr. Mung’ara got 4,089 votes, while United Democratic Alliance (UDA) candidate Kamau Thumbi garnered 4,062 votes.
There were 18,374 registered voters in Muguga Ward, and four candidates ran.
Moses Gichau of the Thirdway Alliance and Peter Njoroge of the People’s Party of Kenya (PPK) finished third and fourth, with 49 and 32 votes, respectively.
Meanwhile, in Kiambaa, vote tallying was suspended after Jubilee party candidate Kariri Njama and his supporters stormed Karuri High School, where tallying was taking place, alleging rigging activities.
At the time, UDA’s Wanjiku John was first with 21,301 votes cast while Jubilee’s Kariri Njama was second with 21,057 votes from the 152 out of 154 polling stations whose votes had been tallied.
Kariri Njama and his supporters demanded a recount of votes from the Muchatha and Kawaida nursery polling stations, saying there was rigging in ballot boxes from two polling stations.
At 6 a.m., the Returning Officer, Peter Muigai, acknowledged a problem in the tallying process and declared an indefinite suspension of vote-tallying.
