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Tight race shaping up in Siaya governor election

Top, Siaya Senator James Orengo, former police spokesman Charles Owino, Cornel Rasanga’s deputy James Okumbe, and former Rarieda MP Nicholas Gumbo. [File, Standard]

Just months to the August 9 elections, a tight contest is shaping up in Siaya County where a little-known party, Movement for Democracy and Growth (MDG), is hoping to wrest the governor seat from Raila Odinga’s ODM.

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