Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto’s new party United Democratic Alliance (UDA) won its first parliamentary seat in the Thursday mini-polls but fell short of landing the knock-out blow it needed to claim a stronghold in the vote-rich central Kenya region ahead of the 2022 elections.
UDA’s candidate, Njuguna Wanjiku, beat the ruling Jubilee Party’s Kariri Njama by about 500 votes in the by-election for a new Member of Parliament for Kiambaa Constituency amid claims of rigging and deployment of State machinery.
