Mombasa Governor Hassan Ali Joho and former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko were on Tuesday evening involved in a near fist fight at a polling station in the Coastal city, forcing police officers to fire in the air to disperse the increasingly agitated crowd that had gathered during the incident.
A side-by-side image of former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko and Mombasa County chief Hassan Joho. PHOTOS | COURTESY
The incident is reported to have happened after Sonko made his way to the Marycliff Primary School polling station shortly after leaving the Makupa Police Station.
He reportedly ran into Joho in the company of ODM candidate in the Mombasa gubernatorial race Abdulswamad Shariff Nassir, during which a heated argument is said to have ensued.
Police officers however responded to the incident and whisked Sonko away to his vehicle, after firing in the air to keep supporters of the rival camps from going at each other’s throats.
Sonko, speaking to an NTV reporter while being driven away, claimed: “Wanataka kuiba kura…vitisho iliisha. Wametoka ndio tumetoka, walikuwa wanasema tutoke wabaki peke yao, hatutatishwa tena.”
The former Nairobi Governor had earlier on bailed out the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party’s Mvita MP aspirant Omar Shallo and his Tudor Ward counterpart Samir Bhalo from Makupa Police Station where there were being detained.
The two leaders had been arrested over claims of causing violence Marycliff Primary School polling station.
