{"id":118334,"date":"2025-07-17T20:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/gachaguas-dcp-eyes-parliament-entry-as-mini-poll-aspirants-step-forward\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T20:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:03:17","slug":"gachaguas-dcp-eyes-parliament-entry-as-mini-poll-aspirants-step-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/gachaguas-dcp-eyes-parliament-entry-as-mini-poll-aspirants-step-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Gachagua\u2019s DCP eyes Parliament entry as mini-poll aspirants step forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Jul 17 \u2013 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua\u2019s Democracy for Citizen Party has unveiled Aden Mohammed and Edgar Busiega as its flagbearers in the Banissa and Malava parliamentary by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>DCP Deputy Leader Cleophas Malala said the party is keen on securing the two seats once the new constituted Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission releases the mini-polls dates to fill at least six vacant parliamentary seats.<\/p>\n<p>Banissa Constituency has been without an MP since March 2023 following the death of Kullow Hassan after a hit and run by a boda boda rider along Mombasa Road.<\/p>\n<p>Malava seat fell vacant in February  the death of its legislator Malulu Injendi.IEBC is expected to hold mini-polls in Magarini after Harrison Kombe\u2019s 2022 election results was nullified by the High Court in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Ugunja and Mbeere North Constituency fell vacant after Opiyo Wandayi and Geoffrey Ruku resigned following their appointment to serve in President William Ruto Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Kasipul Constituency also lost its MP, Charles Ong\u2019ondo Were, who was murdered by a gunman on April 30, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The IEBC will also be expected to conduct a poll in Baringo County after the death of William Cheptumo.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Jul 17 \u2013 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua\u2019s Democracy for Citizen Party has unveiled Aden Mohammed and Edgar Busiega as its flagbearers in the Banissa and Malava parliamentary by-elections. DCP Deputy Leader Cleophas Malala said the party is keen on securing the two seats once the new constituted Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}