Oscar winning actress, Lupita Nyongo’s father, Prof. Anyanga Nyongo, has won the governorship election for
Kisumu County in Kenya. He defeated his rivals, Jackton Ramguma and
Christine Otieno to win. At 83% of the polling stations reporting he got
252, 490 which is 63% while Jackton Ramguma got 141, 320 which
represents 36% and Christine Otieno got 1919 representing less than 1%
of total votes cast.
He ran under the National Super Alliance coalition. Kisumu is NASA
stronghold where the party easily defeated the president’ s Jubilee
party.
With 37, 318 polling stations out of 40883 of the polling
stations reporting, President Uhuru Kenyatta is leading his rival, Raila
Odinga by 10.1% of the votes cast. At 7, 546, 262 that is 54.57% while
Raila Odinga is at 6, 164, 403 at 44.58% of the votes.
The turnout at this point is 72.76% of registered voters.
