Published on November 16, 2024 by Kariuki Mwangi
Last Updated on 2 years by Kariuki Mwangi
Candidates aligned to Team Blue in the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) county level elections easily won in two of the three repeat elections help on Saturday 16the October.
Allies of Doris Petra and Nick Mwendwa won in two counties as Ismael Mohammed Issack carried the day as he was elected the FKF Mandera County chairman while William Lokwee triumphed in Turkana county as three counties went into a repeat of the election exercise following ties on election day last Thursday.
In Nyandarua county, former county chairperson Lucy Kageni’s ally emerged victorious in an election exercise that was engulfed with claims of bribery and voter intimidation.
Lucy Kageni who is the running mate of former FKF CEO Barry Otieno hails from Nyandarua where she is the immediate former Nyandarua FKF chairperson.
Claims have emerged that the election process in the county was marred by instances election malpractices including intimidation and bribery involving promises of bursary allocation in a heated race that saw the county Governor Kiarie Badilisha intervene to calm escalated tensions.
In the first vote, candidates allied to team blue and Lucy Kageni’s candidate had tied on votes forcing a repeat of the polls.
On the other hand, team blue, which has Petra and the national presidential candidate and Nick Mwendwa as running mate has 31 confirmed county chairmen in their fold as well as four others in the grey areas.
Kakamega Homeboyz chairman Cleophas Shimanyula has one vote in confirmed county bosses and projected to bag one more vote in the gray votes which is as well leaning towards team blue and could swing in either way.
Hussein Mohammed has command of 14 counties with four votes are gray areas all leaning towards team blue.
The voting in the three counties were redone as Turkana and Mandera counties did not have a poll for the position of chairman while in Nyandarua there was a poll following a tie in the chairman’s position.
Team blue has claimed a strong command in different regions. Petra and Mwendwa’s allies have won majority counties in the North Rift region and coastal region. In mount Kenya region, team blue captured Kirinyaga, Nyeri, Em u and Tharaka Nithi while five counties in Nyanza are also allied to the Mwendwa- Petra axis.
