No, Kawira Mwangaza is not the leading candidate in the Meru County gubernatorial election. - iVerify Kenya

No, Kawira Mwangaza is not the leading candidate in the Meru County gubernatorial election.

Unproven

As counting continues, the Meru County Returning Officer has not yet issued an official update on the governor’s results.

However, provisional results show that the top Meru gubernatorial seat candidates, Meru Governor Kiraitu Murungi, the area Senator Linturi Mithika, and Meru Woman Representative Kawira Mwangaza, are in a close race as the counting of votes continues.

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Verified Aug, 11 2022

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Kawira Mwangaza leading in the Meru Gubernatorial race

Rating Justification

The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is Unproven.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. On August 11, 2022, we made a call to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Returning Officer who indicated that they are yet to announce the gubernatorial results at the county tallying center at Meru School.

According to the Returning Officer, Vote counting is still ongoing in various constituency tallying centers throughout the county, and results are slowly trickling in at the county tallying center.

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