{"id":1180740,"date":"2022-08-17T01:39:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T01:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/17\/kenyaelections-i-promise-to-run-a-transparent-open-and-democratic-government-president-elect\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T01:39:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T01:39:51","slug":"kenyaelections-i-promise-to-run-a-transparent-open-and-democratic-government-president-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/17\/kenyaelections-i-promise-to-run-a-transparent-open-and-democratic-government-president-elect\/","title":{"rendered":"KenyaElections: I Promise To Run A Transparent, Open And Democratic Government &#8211; President Elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>In what has been a decisive last couple of days in Kenya, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) have declared deputy President Williams Ruto the winner of the 2022 Kenya Presidential elections. The President elect narrowly defeated his closest rival Raila Odinga with almost 7.18 million (50.49% ) of the total votes. Speaking after he was declared winner, Williams Ruto promised in his speech that he will run a transparent, open and democratic government. He also promised all the Citizens of Kenya that his Government will be theirs irrespective of whether they had voted for him or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 55 years old equally assured his opponents that they have nothing to fear as there will be no room for vengeance<strong>. \u201cWe don\u2019t have the luxury to look back, we don\u2019t have the luxury to point fingers, we must work together for a functioning, democratic and prosperous Kenya\u201d, he added.\u00a0<\/strong>Many reactions have trailed since the announcement as leaders across African nations have began sending their messages of congratulations to Williams Ruto, who is set to become the fifth elected President of Kenya since the country attained Independence in 1963.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit: BBC NEWS PIDGIN<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Maxidel (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what has been a decisive last couple of days in Kenya, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) have declared deputy President Williams Ruto the winner of the 2022 Kenya Presidential elections. The President elect narrowly defeated his closest rival Raila Odinga with almost 7.18 million (50.49% ) of the total votes. Speaking after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1180742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180740","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=1180740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}