Ann Kananu Mwenda who has been running the county as acting governor from January 2021 following the impeachment and ousting of Mike Sonko on corruption charges is not seeking election (Dispatches 28/1/21 Mixed signals about an election for a new governor in Nairobi)...
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The next pitched battle between Deputy President William Ruto and the 'handshake' coalition of President Uhuru Kenyatta and erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga is centred over whether and when a by-election to replace impeached Nairobi governor Mike Sonko should be held...
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The crowd-pleasing previous governor a frequent embarrassment to the government Mike Sonko was impeached last year...
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There is due to be a by-election for the Nairobi county governorship following the impeachment of Mike Sonko for corruption...
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The image of suspended Nairobi governor Mike Sonko at State House wordlessly signing powers over to the national government in February appeared to symbolise the presidency's triumph in the long campaign for control of the city...
On 6 October this year Kenyatta was back at Uhuru Market another slum with the new Nairobi governor Mike Sonko and the public sweeping away the rubbish...
Jubilee's Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko is already positioning himself as a rival to one of the Nasa co-founders Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka as leader of the Kamba community putting him on a collision course with Alfred Mutua the new governor of Machakos County...
Evans Kidero lost the governorship of Nairobi to Jubilee's Mike Sonko and Jubilee strengthened its hold over the legislature...
In Nairobi Peter Kenneth another Kenyatta favourite lost heavily to the mercurial populist Michael 'Sonko' Mbuvi Kioko...
