Gachagua’s DCP party bags Narok Township, Kariobangi North, Kisa East MCA seats

Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP) has bagged three Member of County Assembly (MCA) seats in the by-elections held on Thursday.

The party’s David Wanyoike Warui clinched the Kariobangi North Ward seat garnering 2,282 votes, beating independent candidate John Kimanzi, who secured 1,956 votes.

The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party candidate Majua Michael Ouma came third with 1,351 votes while Njoka Julius Maina of the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) managed to secure 955 votes.

The highly competitive race attracted 16 candidates, two of whom ran on independent tickets. The seat fell vacant following the death of former MCA Joel Munuve, who passed away in April this year.

In the Narok Town Ward by-election, DCP’s Douglas Makonde garnered 6,007 votes to clinch the seat after beating out Robert Kanyinke Ole Kudate of the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), who got 4,479 votes.

The party’s candidate in the Kisa East Ward poll, Aduda Okwiri, was also declared winner after securing 1,952 votes, followed by Joel Ongoro of the Movement for Democracy and Growth (MDG) with 1,541 votes.

DCP boss Gachagua took to social media to congratulate the party candidates on their victories, also thanking their supporters for what he termed as turning down wanton voter bribery.

“Our party, making the newest kid in the block, which is seven months old whitewashed old parties some old as twenty years. I salute the people of Narok Township, Kariobangi North and Kisa East for standing up to intimidation, goons, state-sponsored militia and violent attacks by the police to exercise their democratic right,” he wrote.

“I salute them for rejecting voter bribery as an ingredient of our politics. I urge all those who wish to vie for seats under our party to remain on the ground and continuously engage the electorate as they listen to them.”