27 year old giving Raila sleepless nights in Migori senatorial race

Migori Senatorial by-elections are scheduled for Monday, October 8 following the demise of the former senator Ben Oluoch who succumbed to cancer in June 2018.

The vacancy of the senatorial seat has attracted six candidates but the campaigns have seen a two horse race between ODM Party’s Ochilo Ayacko and the Federal Party Kenya’s 27 year old Eddy Oketch Gicheru.

With barely three days to the election day, candidates have been crisscrossing the vast region in the last minute rush.

Eddy, the founder of Ongoza Initiative and Gicheru Trustee foundations which champion a non-violent society and offer education scholarships and digital mentorship youth in respectively has seen the ODM brigade camp in the area to aid their candidate’s election.

On Thursday, October 4, Raila joined his top guns in Rongo, Awendo, Kuria West and East Constituencies to re-enforce the Ayacko campaigns.

Raila received a cold reception in the two Kuria constituencies, perceived to be Oketch’s strongholds. Both constituencies voted overwhelmingly for Jubilee in the 2017 General Election.

He went back to traverse in Migori on Friday, the deadline for campaigns to continue convincing Migori residents to vote in Ayacko.

Earlier on his brigade led by his deputy party leader Mombasa governor Hassan Ali Joho camped in Migori from Monday to aid Ayacko campaigns.

Joho while campaigning told Migori residents that Migori senatorial race was between Deputy president William Ruto and Raila Odinga.

He said Ruto was sponsoring Oketch’s campaign with money and choppers to move around the county while campaigning.

Oketch however disputed Joho’s claims and said no one was sponsoring his campaigns considering the fact that he was vying on a Federal Party of Kenya ticket.

 

 

 

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