{"id":915306,"date":"2022-01-11T12:51:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T12:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/11\/raila-is-president-uhurus-candidate-william-kabogo-claims\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T12:51:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T12:51:34","slug":"raila-is-president-uhurus-candidate-william-kabogo-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/raila-is-president-uhurus-candidate-william-kabogo-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Raila is President Uhuru\u2019s candidate, William Kabogo claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/jwhah1h1putmz9ha61dd77c78829f.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Former Kiambu Governor William Kabogo.<\/strong> [David Njaaga, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Former Kiambu Governor William Kabogo now claims that ODM Leader Raila Odinga is a \u2018government project.\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p>Kabogo, in an interview with <em>Spice FM<\/em> on Tuesday morning, said: \u201cYou cannot run away from the fact that Raila is now Uhuru\u2019s candidate. If you are a seasoned politician, you should see it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Tujibebe Wakenya Party Leader who commented on the direction of the 2022 General Election argued that President Uhuru Kenyatta seems to be holding the hidden card in the Azimio La Umoja Movement, a strategic plan to unite the country launched in August last year.\n<\/p>\n<p>Kabogo urged Kenyans not to recycle leaders in this year\u2019s General Election, as has been the norm. \u201cWe seem to want to recycle the same old stuff- in respect to leadership,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"tJlKAxskI5I\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Raila Is Uhuru&#039;s Candidate: WILLIAM KABOGO, Tujibebe WaKenya, Party Leader\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tJlKAxskI5I?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>He questioned the intentions of national leaders seeking elective positions this year, adding that there is nothing more left to do and say that hasn\u2019t already been said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is this miracle that will happen now that you couldn\u2019t do before? This is just talk for elections,\u201d the former governor said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Kabogo worried that emotive politics would lead to worse outcomes than the 2007\/2008 post-election violence if we aren\u2019t careful. <\/p>\n<p>Referencing utterances made by Meru Senator Mithika Linturi during a rally led by Deputy President William Ruto in Eldoret at the weekend, the former county chief said, \u201cit\u2019s scary to think where this country will go with this leadership. We are still bound on ethnic inclinations in politics.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/politics\/article\/2001434088\/raila-is-uhuru-s-candidate-kabogo-claims\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Kiambu Governor William Kabogo. [David Njaaga, Standard] Former Kiambu Governor William Kabogo now claims that ODM Leader Raila Odinga is a \u2018government project.\u2019 Kabogo, in an interview with Spice FM on Tuesday morning, said: \u201cYou cannot run away from the fact that Raila is now Uhuru\u2019s candidate. If you are a seasoned politician, you [&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-915306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915306","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=915306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}