Kitui Gubernatorial Elections were held in
Kitui
Kitui is a town and capital of Kitui County in Kenya, 180 kilometres east of Nairobi and 105 kilometres east of Machakos. it covers an area approximately 30,496.4 km squares and lies between latitudes 0°10 South and 3°0 South and longitudes ...
to elect a Governor and County Assembly on 4 March 2013. Under the new
constitution
A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed.
When these princip ...
, which was passed in a
2010 referendum, the
2013 general elections were the first in which Governors and members of the County Assemblies for the newly created
counties
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
were elected. They will also be the first general elections run by the
Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is an independent regulatory agency that was founded in the year 2011 through the making of the Constitution of Kenya. The Commission is responsible for conducting or supervising refere ...
(IEBC) which has released the official list of candidates.
Gubernatorial election
Prospective candidates
The following are some of the candidates who have made public their intentions to run:
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Charity Ngilu
Charity Kaluki Ngilu (born 28 January 1952) is a Kenyan politician and the second governor elected for Kitui County. She unsuccessfully vied to be President of the Republic of Kenya in 1997. She served as Minister for Health from 2003 until 20 ...
- Former Lands Cabinet Secretary
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David Musila
David Musila (born 1943) is a Kenyan politician. He belongs to the Wiper Democratic Movement and was elected to represent Mwingi South Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya since the Kenyan parliamentary election of 1997. He is current ...
- Senator Kitui County
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Julius Makau Malombe - former chairman of the devolved government taskforce and a nephew to former Cabinet minister Nyiva Mwendwa,
References
{{Kenya general elections, 2013
2013 local elections in Kenya