{"id":428877,"date":"2011-05-23T15:31:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T15:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/23\/bruising-battle-for-coveted-seats-in-nation-by-elections\/"},"modified":"2011-05-23T15:31:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T15:31:42","slug":"bruising-battle-for-coveted-seats-in-nation-by-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/23\/bruising-battle-for-coveted-seats-in-nation-by-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruising Battle for Coveted Seats in Nation By-Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"22.6678994083\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecitizen.co.tz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Citizen<\/a> (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam)<\/p>\n<p>Lucas Barasa<\/p>\n<p>21 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Nairobi \u2014 Three major parties are set for a bruising battle in Monday&#8217;s by-election in Kamukunji with the winner earning bragging rights ahead of the 2012 General Election.<\/p>\n<p>ODM, the PNU alliance and Narc-Kenya are engaged in a bare-knuckles fight for the seat &#8212; which fell vacant following a successful court petition against former MP Simon Mbugua &#8212; as they wind up their search for votes on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mr Mbugua is not contesting and therefore Kamukunji will be represented by a new MP.ODM candidate Ibrahim Ahmed aka Johnnie, who filed the petition against Mr Mbugua, and Mr Yusuf Hassan, have emerged as front runners.<\/p>\n<p>Narc-Kenya that has been fielding candidates in the recent by-elections, bagging the Juja and Makadara seats, is also confident of winning the Kamukunji seat through youthful candidate Brian Weke.Four other candidates from other parties are also in contention.Mr Hassan is a former journalist and UN official.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105231536.html\" title=\"Bruising Battle for Coveted Seats in Nation By-Elections\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bruising Battle for Coveted Seats in Nation By-Elections<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Citizen (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam) Lucas Barasa 21 May 2011 Nairobi \u2014 Three major parties are set for a bruising battle in Monday&#8217;s by-election in Kamukunji with the winner earning bragging rights ahead of the 2012 General Election. ODM, the PNU alliance and Narc-Kenya are engaged in a bare-knuckles fight for the seat &#8212; which fell vacant following a successful court petition against former MP Simon Mbugua &#8212; as they wind up their search for votes on Saturday. However, Mr Mbugua is not contesting and therefore Kamukunji will be represented by a new MP.ODM candidate Ibrahim Ahmed aka Johnnie, who filed the petition against Mr Mbugua, and Mr Yusuf Hassan, have emerged as front runners. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":414180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-428877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bruising Battle for Coveted Seats in Nation By-Elections - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/23\/bruising-battle-for-coveted-seats-in-nation-by-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Bruising Battle for Coveted Seats in Nation By-Elections - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Citizen (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam) Lucas Barasa 21 May 2011 Nairobi \u2014 Three major parties are set for a bruising battle in Monday&#039;s by-election in Kamukunji with the winner earning bragging rights ahead of the 2012 General Election. 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