[3] Prior to becoming Governor, he served as the Member of Parliament for Juja Constituency, a seat he first secured in 2002 and then regained in the 2010 by-election after a successful court petition.

[8] Determined to reclaim his position, he successfully petitioned the election results, leading to a by-election where he triumphed over Thuo with a landslide victory on a Narc-Kenya ticket.

However, his fortunes changed in 2017 when he lost the governorship to Ferdinand Waititu[9] after failing to secure the crucial Jubilee Party [10]ticket, which was considered essential for success in Kiambu County,[11] the political stronghold of Uhuru Kenyatta.

In May 2021, a false statement circulated on social media claiming that William Kabogo had conceded defeat in the parliamentary by-election for the Juja constituency.

PesaCheck, East Africa’s first public fact-checking initiative, in collaboration with Code for Africa—the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator—investigated the claim.