Federal Party of Kenya (FPK) candidate in the concluded Migori senatorial by-election Eddy Oketch has conceded defeat to Senator-elect Ochilo Ayacko.
Ayacko was on Tuesday morning declared winner by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) returning officer for the repeat election Ruth Kulundu.
The former Energy and Sports Cabinet Minister garnered 85, 234 votes, this being 57.69 percent of all the valid votes, against Oketch's 60, 555 (40.99 percent) votes.
Addressing the press moments after the declaration, Oketch acknowledged Ayacko's win in the by-election that was conducted on Monday.
He, however, alleged that the race was not fully fair, claiming that there were cases of poll interference.
“Yesterday during the election exercise I complained on several occasions to the media, IEBC and county security agencies about the invasion of polling stations by numerous non-Migori ODM leaders.
"The world knows what happened in this by-election," he was quoted by the Citizen Digital.
Oketch noted that his sole intention was to bring peace and unity in the county as the Senator, now placing the responsibility of realizing the same on Ochilo's shoulders.
"My sole purpose for contesting this seat was to bring unity and peace in Migori County. I believe in these two as recipe for development and it is my single hope that the senator elect Hon. Ochillo Ayacko will put deliberate effort to unite the great people of Migori County," he is further quoted.
Ayacko won the seat on the opposition's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party ticket.