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William Gitau
Kenyan politician
William Kabogo Gitau is a Kenyan politician. He was the first and former governor of Migori County[1] and a member of The National Alliance (TNA), one of the allied parties that merged to form The Jubilee Party.[2]
He won the governorship in the March 2013 general election. He is the immediate former Awendo MP, a seat he won in the 2010 by-elections, trouncing Gradus of Chama Chetu Congress who was a distant second, while the previous MP Oluoch Kanindo of PNU was third.[3] In 2017, he lost the jubilee ticket and conceded defeat way before the results were announced.
In 2017, he was defeated by his rival Ferdinand Waititu in the nomination for the Jubilee gubernatorial ticket. Thereafter, he quit the Jubilee Party and declared that he would contest for the seat as an independent candidate but also lost to Waititu.[4]
He is associated with the murder case of Mercy Keino.