Abdul Haji, Westgate hero and DPP Haji's brother, clinches Garissa Senate seat
Businessman Abdul Haji.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has declared Abdulkadir Haji, popularly known as Abdul Haji, the Garissa Senator elect. Mr Haji, who is also the younger brother of DPP Noordin Haji, is the son former Senator Yusuf Haji who died in February last year.
Mr Haji (Jubilee) won the seat with 72,383 votes, followed by Shalle Mohammed Issack (Ford Kenya) with 19,279 votes and Abdi Ahmedrashid Koriyow (Wiper) with 3,296 votes.
In a county where clan politics holds the key to power, Mr Haji managed to secure the support of all the major elders from the main clans in Garissa.
Mr Haji is perhaps best known for walking into Westgate Mall in Westlands, Nairobi, in the middle of an attack by Al-Shabaab in 2013 to rescue his brother Noordin, now the DPP. He ended up saving many other lives, and his act of valour would come to change his life.
Mr Abdul Haji rescuing a child at Westgate Mall in Nairobi during the terror attack of September 21, 2013.
