Dekow Barrow Mohamed, a brother-in-law of Defence Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale, has won the Garissa Township parliamentary by-election on a UDA ticket, “I am delighted and grateful to all, I shall serve the electorate fairly in this constituency,” he said after IEBC declared him the winner early Friday morning…
He garnered 11,572 votes, beating his closest competitor Mr Nassir Dolal Mohamed alias Jofle (UDM) who got 8,158 votes. Other candidates were Abdikhaim Osman Mohamed of DP, Ibrahim Nur Malow Shurie (Narc_Kenya), Abdifaisal Amin (ODM) and Muhiadin Ahmed Abdirashid (DAP_Kenya), While conceding a defeat, UDM candidate Nassir said he lost due lack of local support.
“My competitor had all the support from every corner. I have accepted his win and I will support him,” he said, The Garissa Township by-election was mainly a two horse race pitting UDA’s Dekow and UDM’s Nassir. It was also a political supremacy battle between CS Duale, the former area MP, and Mandera Senator Ali Roba who owns the UDM party.
Regional pundits considered Dekow’s win as likely after CS Duale rallied community elders, politicians and professionals from the Abduwak clan to support one of their own ahead of the poll.
