Kisii Senator Chris Obure has said ODM's win in Nyacheki by-elections should not be used as a measure of what will happen in 2017.
Obure said Naftali Onkoba's victory had been used to attract "propaganda and funny interpretations" to hoodwink residents.
He said the area was a sample insufficient for conclusions on next year's election.
“The win should not be used as a litmus test. The mini-poll has been used to dupe residents that the same will be replicated in the coming polls,” he was quoted by the Star.
Obure further said the people who participated in the exercise based their votes on clan politics.
“Clan and sub-clan politics influenced the outcome of Nyacheki by-election which had 15 candidates," he told the press in Kisii.
The Senator also said the violence and intimidation which characterised the exercise might have led to voter apathy given that 6,738 out of the 10,924 registered voters participated in the polls.
“Let us not brag using the Nyacheki outcome. People should do so if the party wins in four wards in the entire Bobasi constituency,” he said.