•The preacher and lawyer turned politician arrived at the station at around 7:15am and proceeded to cast his ballot accompanied by his aides and a few campaign supporters.
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Agano party presidential candidate Waihiga Mwaure on Tuesday vowed to accept the outcome of the polls and close ranks with the winner in the event he loses.
He also decried the perceived low enthusiasm and apathy among voters in the country.
The preacher and lawyer turned politician arrived at the station at around 7:15am and proceeded to cast his ballot accompanied by his aides and a few campaign supporters.
He had cast his vote at Upper Hill primary school.
“If I lose, I will concede and shake the hands of the winner if I will be next to him,” he told reporters after the exercise.
He expressed his satisfaction with the arrangement put by the electoral commission in the polls, describing it as smooth and event free.
“I’m happy to be here and happy to have exercised by democratic right to vote, and I have voted for my candidature without fear or favor,” he said.
He emphasized that the vote was monumental for the future of the country and that the young people needed to seize the moment and cast their vote.
"It is much of a duty just as it is a right," he added.
Mwaure also dismissed the notion that it leaders come from God and that whether people vote or not, the divine being will install one.
Don’t just leave it to God, he said, adding that the civic responsibility of voting requires action by the registered citizens.
“While it is God who gives us leaders, he uses us to choose. By voting, you are fulfilling a divine mandate. If you have been praying for a good leader for the country, the God will answer you when you vote. Just say a prayer and tick the ballot.”
The presidential hopeful also reiterated his agenda for the country, expressing his optimism that if given a chance, he would turn the country around.
“This is a golden opportunity to start afresh as a country,” he said, adding that Kenyans were a hardworking and good willed lot that has huge potential should they elect a decent leader of integrity.
His running mate Ruth Mucheru Mutua voted at a polling station in Umoja One in Nairobi.
The optimism by the candidate follows his complaint on Monday that he feared the poll process would not be fair because perceived top candidates-former Prime minister Raila Odinga and Deputy President William Ruto-were allegedly using state resources in the campaigns.
He claimed the poll agency IEBC had sat on its hands instead of reigning on the alleged exploitation of the state resources by Ruto and Raila in oiling their campaigns to his disadvantage.
He claimed that the dominance by the two had crowded him out of the media and public spaces and hamstrung his campaigns, making the elections not fair.
But on Tuesday, he said he was satisfied that the process had been fair and that the outcome will be agreeable to him.