{"id":72703,"date":"2022-10-29T16:13:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T16:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/dap-k-leader-wamunyinyi-joins-race-for-bungoma-senate-seat"},"modified":"2022-10-29T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T16:30:59","slug":"dap-k-leader-wamunyinyi-joins-race-for-bungoma-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/dap-k-leader-wamunyinyi-joins-race-for-bungoma-senate-seat","title":{"rendered":"DAP-K leader Wamunyinyi joins race for Bungoma senate seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>DAP-K party leader Wafula Wamunyinyi has joined the race to vie for the Bungoma senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Saturday, the DAP-K party said the leader will be vying for the seat in December by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s now official our Party leader Wafula Wamunyinyi will be vying for the Bungoma County Senatorial seat in the December by-elections. Wamunyinyi is banking on his rich experience as a legislator, liberation champion and defender of farmers to win the seat,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The Bungoma senate seat fell vacant following Moses Wetangula&#8217;s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Wetangula quit the seat to vie for the National Assembly speaker&#8217;s seat which he won.<\/p>\n<p>Wamunyinyi unsuccessfully defended his Kanduyi parliamentary seat in the August 9, elections.<\/p>\n<p>He lost to Ford Kenya&#8217;s John Makali.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Chairman Wafula Chebukati in a gazette notice said the elections will be on December 8.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following declaration of vacancy that occurred in the office of Member of the Senate for Bungoma County confirmed by the respective Speakers of the Senate vide a letter dated the the26th September 2022, there shall be a by-election for Member of the Senate for Bungoma County on Thursday, December 8, 2022,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The seat has so far attracted more than 15 aspirants, including Wetang&#8217;ula&#8217;s aide Wafula Wakoli, businessman Joseph Lendrix Waswa and Jacob Machacha, Rev Herman Kasili, lawyer Erick Nakhurenya and former Bumula MP Mwambu Mabonga, among others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. DAP-K party leader Wafula Wamunyinyi has joined the race to vie for the Bungoma senate seat. In a statement on Saturday, the DAP-K party said the leader will be vying for the seat in December by-elections. &#8220;It&#8217;s now official our Party leader Wafula Wamunyinyi will be vying for the Bungoma County Senatorial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":72702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-72703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DAP-K leader Wamunyinyi joins race for Bungoma senate seat - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"DAP-K party leader Wafula Wamunyinyi has joined the race to vie for the Bungoma senate seat. 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