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Msambweni mini poll: Omar Boga clinches ODM party ticket

Omar Boga (second right) queues to vote at Jogoo polling station during the ODM party primaries on October 1, 2020 . He clinched the ODM party ticket for the Msambweni parliamentary by election after garnering 6,183 votes. 


Photo credit: Fadhili Fredrick | Nation Media Group

By  Mohamed Ahmed  &  Fadhili Fredrick

What you need to know:

  • The former Gombato/Bongwe ward representative will face Mr Feisal Bader who is being supported by DP Ruto.  
  • Mr Bader received Dr Ruto’s support a day after the ruling Jubilee Party opted not to field a candidate in the mini poll.

A fierce political battle looms between Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and Deputy President William Ruto’s sponsored candidate in the Msambweni parliamentary by-election in Kwale.

Mr Omar Boga was on Thursday declared the ODM party candidate after he garnered 6,183 votes to beat Mr Nicholas Zani who got 530 votes in the Orange party primaries.

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