{"id":914268,"date":"2022-01-07T12:24:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/07\/dp-rutos-bold-birthday-message-to-raila-leaves-kenyans-talking\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T12:24:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:24:51","slug":"dp-rutos-bold-birthday-message-to-raila-leaves-kenyans-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/dp-rutos-bold-birthday-message-to-raila-leaves-kenyans-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"DP Ruto&#8217;s Bold Birthday Message To Raila Leaves Kenyans Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/f098eaa8337940b5b69fe612b5c7cbfe\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Deputy President William Ruto has suprised Kenyans by penning a message to Raila Odinga on his birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Raila Odinga turns 77 today and many Kenyans have wished him a happy birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the political rivalry between the two, Ruto wishing Raila a good day was not expected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happy birthday Jakom. May you be blessed with many more,&#8221; read the message of Ruto&#8217;s social media page.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bab1252a15c54aae89a7455c1da8b4ad\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This is a clear message to Kenyans that the politics enemity has limits and is not permanent.<\/p>\n<p>During Ruto&#8217;s 55th birthday on December, Raila did not send any public message to him.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyans have applauded Ruto for shelving his political conflicts with Raila to send a message on his special day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/716afbc6bb6f4fb9a3e3939a11d88506\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Below are some of the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Mkurugenzi Rocky: This post is to remind Kenyans that politics is not a matter of life and death. Don&#8217;t kill yourselves because of these guys.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan Updates: The 5th wishing a 20 years leader of opposition a happy birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Wilfred Ole: Hustler nation we wish Jakom a happy birthday. May he live to see Ruto&#8217;s swearing in.<\/p>\n<p>Gerald Nyaga: Doyen whatever you have demonstrated is pure wisdom.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/c9d93fdf477f476da93975e487d66f5f\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: KMutai (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nKenyans<br \/>\nMkurugenzi Rocky<br \/>\nRaila Odinga<br \/>\nRuto<br \/>\nWilliam Ruto<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy President William Ruto has suprised Kenyans by penning a message to Raila Odinga on his birthday. Raila Odinga turns 77 today and many Kenyans have wished him a happy birthday. Due to the political rivalry between the two, Ruto wishing Raila a good day was not expected. &#8220;Happy birthday Jakom. May you be blessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914268","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=914268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}