Mwadeghu leads in Wundanyi in Taita Taveta ODM primaries

Wundanyi MP Thomas Mwadeghu is leading in the Taita Taveta ODM governorship primaries after beating Governor John Mtuttu in Wundanyi Sub-County.

Mr Mwadeghu has garnered 4,417 votes against Mr Mruttu’s 3,628 votes.

Governor Mruttu had earlier taken the lead when votes for Wundanyi Mbale Ward were tallied, but Mr Mwadeghu later overtook him when votes from Mwanda/Mgange Ward arrived at 5am on Wednesday.

In Werugha Ward, Governor Mruttu garnered 1,527 votes against Mr Mwadeghu’s 446 votes.

In Mwanda/Mgange ward, Governor Mruttu garnered 582 votes while Mr Mwadeghu got 1,985 votes.

This ward is considered Mr Mwadeghu’s stronghold since it is his home turf.

In Wumingu/Kishushe Ward, Mr Mruttu garnered 665 votes while Mr Mwadeghu got 595 votes.

In Wundanyi/Mbale ward, Mr Mwadeghu garnered 1,391 votes against Mr Mruttu’s 854 votes.

SENATE

In the race for the ODM senate ticket, Jones Mwaruma got 6,698 while his closest challenger, Richard Tairo, garnered 1136 votes.

In the woman representative’s race, Hope Anisa garnered 4,605 votes while her closest challenger, Anastasia Wakesho got 3,124 votes.

The sub-county returning officer Katema Henriques will announce the results before forwarding them to the county tallying headquarters in Mwatate Sub-County.

The votes were cast in 24 polling stations across the four wards in the sub-county.

VOI

In Voi, vote tallying was still underway at the Voi CDF Hall Wednesday morning with Governor John Mruttu leading with 1,942 votes against Mr Mwadeghu’s 1,816 votes from 14 polling centres.

However, heavy rains that hit some of the areas delayed the delivery of some of the results time.

“Up to now we are still waiting for results from Wongonyi. The clerks could not reach here on time because the road leading to Wongonyi has been washed away by floods” said Voi ODM chairperson John Maghanga.

By Wednesday morning, results from all the 30 polling centres in Voi were yet to be submitted by the clerks.

However, some of the clerks complained that they were yet to receive their pay as they had been promised by the party.

“We have been working for the last two days but we have not received a coin from the party. We have not eaten and some of us do not have bus fare to go back home,” said one clerk, Marium Musa.

However, Ms Musa said they had been promised that they will be paid before the end of the tallying exercise.

“I will not leave this hall unless I am paid my allowance,” she said.