{"id":215233,"date":"2025-11-29T09:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-panyako-rejects-malava-by-election-results-claims-victory-was-stolen\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T09:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:46:13","slug":"kenya-panyako-rejects-malava-by-election-results-claims-victory-was-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-panyako-rejects-malava-by-election-results-claims-victory-was-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Panyako Rejects Malava By-Election Results, Claims Victory Was Stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nairobi \u2014 DAP-K candidate Seth Panyako has rejected the results of the Malava parliamentary by-election, alleging that the final tally was manipulated to deny him what he describes as a clear grassroots victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">His statement came shortly after the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) declared UDA&#8217;s David Ndakwa as the MP-elect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Panyako claimed that the official results do not reflect the will of Malava voters, accusing unnamed actors of engineering a coordinated plan to alter&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511280394.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 DAP-K candidate Seth Panyako has rejected the results of the Malava parliamentary by-election, alleging that the final tally was manipulated to deny him what he describes as a clear grassroots victory. His statement came shortly after the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) declared UDA&#8217;s David Ndakwa as the MP-elect. Panyako claimed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":215234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,9913,8117,4688,430,52971,257,52970,8440,6407,254,8996,10099],"class_list":["post-215233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-byelection","tag-claims","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-malava","tag-news","tag-panyako","tag-rejects","tag-results","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stolen","tag-victory"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}