Peter Nabulindo was on Thursday sworn-in as the duly elected member of Parliament for Matungu, replacing the late Justus Murunga.
Nabulindo won the seat on an Amani National Congress ticket, trouncing ODM’s David Were with a margin of about 4,000 votes.
He took oath in a brief ceremony presided over by Speaker Justin Muturi who congratulated the new lawmaker on his election and welcomed him to the House.
The vacancy in the constituency occasioned high octane campaigns in what degenerated into a contest between key politicians angling to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta and the supremacy battle for the control of the Luhya bloc ahead of the 2022 race.
ANC's Musalia Mudavadi, ODM's Raila Odinga and Deputy President William Ruto used the mini poll to size themselves ahead of 2022.
While Mudavadi and his Ford Kenya counterpart Moses Wetang'ula used the polls to confirm they were in control of the region, Raila on the other hand used it to test his influence in the region that has supported him for close to two decades after he fell out with his fellow Nasa co-principals.
Ruto on the other side was using the outcome of the poll to probably gain a foothold and build on the Msambweni victory where he upset ODM by supporting an independent candidate.
