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Two constituencies in Mt Kenya were looking forward to a feat that has not happened in the area for the last 24 years.
At the conclusion of the presidential tallying exercise, either Mathira Constituency in Nyeri or Gichugu in Kirinyaga County was to play a role held last by Othaya in Nyeri where the last number two from Mt Kenya hailed from - Mwai Kibaki in 1988.
Former university don Dr Josephat Njuguna Karanja, who was the MP for Mathare in Nairobi would later serve for just over a year as vice president, leaving ignominiously after parliament passed a vote of no confidence in 1989.
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