Ndeti floors Kiala to win Machakos Wiper Ticket

Ms Wavinya Ndeti has once more been declared winner in Machakos County Wiper Party gubernatorial elections – this second victory coming than 48 hours after her nomination was declared null and void by the Political Parties Tribunal.

Sitting Machakos Deputy Governor-Bernard Kiala had contested Ms Ndeti’s initial victory, causing the party to hold a repeat exercise on Saturday, May 6.

The former Kathiani MP’s popularity was affirmed when she got 227,947 votes to Kiala’s 4,508 votes in the repeat exercise.

Mr Kiala had earlier boycotted the primaries, claiming that Wiper Party Leader Kalonzo Musyoka had planned to rig him out.

The race is not over yet for Ms. Ndeti as she will now lock horns with the incumbent Dr. Alfred Mutua in the coming August 8 general elections.

Governor Mutua was elected on a Wiper Party ticket back in 2013 but has since defected to his newly-formed Maendeleo Chap Chap (MCC) – an outfit that is allied to President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee Party.

Wiper Party leader, Kalonzo Musyoka, will be following the Machakos race keenly as a Wavinya Ndeti win will assert his political supremacy in Ukambani region, while a win to Dr. Mutua will deal a blow to his reputation as the region’s kingpin.