{"id":1059700,"date":"2022-04-18T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T13:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/18\/mc-jessy-to-vie-for-south-imenti-mp-seat-on-independent-ticket\/"},"modified":"2022-04-18T13:41:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T13:41:50","slug":"mc-jessy-to-vie-for-south-imenti-mp-seat-on-independent-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/18\/mc-jessy-to-vie-for-south-imenti-mp-seat-on-independent-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"MC Jessy to vie for South Imenti MP seat on Independent ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Comedian Jasper Muthomi aka MC Jessy [Standard]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Comedian Jasper Muthomi, popularly known as MC Jessy, will vie for the South Imenti parliamentary seat on an Independent ticket.\n<\/p>\n

Jessy previously sought to vie for the seat under the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Party. \n<\/p>\n

He, however, dropped out of the race in favour of Mwiti Kathaara after Deputy President William Ruto brokered a deal between the duo. <\/p>\n

\u201cMC Jessy will join the presidential campaign team after postponing his parliamentary bid in favour of Mwiti Kathaara for the South Imenti Seat,\u201d said Ruto on April 13, 2022.\n<\/p>\n

But in an announcement by Jessy on Monday, April 18, he says he is determined to be on the ballot come August 9, elections.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSent like an arrow from a mighty man\u2019s hand. We keep going. Bado Tuko kwa race (We are still in the race). Let\u2019s do this South Imenti, 9th August it is,\u201d he said.
 
The comedian, nontheless, noted that he would still be supporting the Deputy President for the presidential seat.\n<\/p>\n

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Comedian Jasper Muthomi aka MC Jessy [Standard] Comedian Jasper Muthomi, popularly known as MC Jessy, will vie for the South Imenti parliamentary seat on an Independent ticket. Jessy previously sought to vie for the seat under the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Party.  He, however, dropped out of the race in favour of Mwiti Kathaara after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1059701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3887],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}