Kivutha Kibwana Joins Kenya Kwanza, Days After Losing In Makueni Senatorial Race

Former Makueni Governor Kivutha Kibwana has joined the Kenya Kwanza coalition a few days after losing the Makueni senate seat to Dan Maanzo.

President-elect William Ruto received him at his residence in Karen and announced publicly that he has joined the coalition.

“We associate with the leadership that Prof. Kivutha Kibwana has manifested in agreeing to work with us in furthering our country’s development agenda,” Ruto said.

Ruto welcomed him to the Kenya Kwanza team, adding that he will join the legal team in the ongoing presidential election petition at the Supreme Court of Kenya.

“The Makueni Governor will join the Kenya Kwanza legal team in the ongoing presidential election petition.,” Ruto added.

Kibwana lost the senate race to Dan Maanzo and pointed to one constituency in which he said elections should have been suspended due to massive technology failure.

He said the alternative manual voter identification was cumbersome and took a long time.

“In Makueni County elections were compromised. Kibwezi West constituency (1/6) elections should have been postponed. For example, initially, KIEMS kits in 106/206 polling stations failed. For more than six hours kits in 84 stations failed before chaotic manual voting which ended about 1am.” Kivutha lamented.

The failure of KIEMS kits in Makueni forced the IEBC to give elections officials in the county greenlight to use manual voter registers in 84 polling stations.