{"id":918438,"date":"2022-01-21T20:04:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T20:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/21\/mp-ngunjiri-wambugu-reacts-to-dp-rutos-huge-reception-in-west-pokot-watu-wengi\/"},"modified":"2022-01-21T20:04:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T20:04:58","slug":"mp-ngunjiri-wambugu-reacts-to-dp-rutos-huge-reception-in-west-pokot-watu-wengi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/21\/mp-ngunjiri-wambugu-reacts-to-dp-rutos-huge-reception-in-west-pokot-watu-wengi\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Ngunjiri Wambugu Reacts to DP Ruto&#8217;s Huge Reception in West Pokot &#8220;Watu Wengi&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/4bcd00a81a3d4bfe8d74f81eeb1dbc8c\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hours after Deputy President William Ruto stormed West Pokoto county and accorded a massive reception, Nyeri Town MP Ngunjiri Wambugu has come out to weigh in on the same.<\/p>\n<p>This was after the DP was highly received in Sigor, Chepareria, Makutano, Kapenguria among other stopovers, eliciting speculations on whether West Pokot was Raila&#8217;s stronghold as recently claimed by the county&#8217;s governor John Lonyangapuo.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/e5c63151b1204e3b859c62d568bb1cf4\" alt=\"Image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And taking to his Facebook page, Wambugu, who is a fierce critic of the DP, acknowledged the huge crowd Ruto was accorded but took time to do comparisons with that of Azimio la Umoja boss Raila Odinga.<\/p>\n<p>While comparing Ruto&#8217;s crowd with that of Raila Odinga while in Homa Bay today, Wambugu indirectly rubbished the notion of a huge crowd reflecting to good votes, saying everybody has the ability to attract such huge crowds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/45972d7a848a46989b3c3631a3cf1743\"\/><\/p>\n<p>His post, however, attracted mixed reactions, with a number of users accusing the MP of jitters over Ruto&#8217;s huge crowd.<\/p>\n<p>While some supported Ngunjiri, others criticized him for allegedly skipping Ruto&#8217;s photos showing the actual huge crowd and posting on a close-up photo not capturing the whole crowd. Here are some of the comments;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/5c1aecbafb4f4e98bb2a1ffcc44869a2\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/950d3e1ef93545498ad983dfe0f208ae\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: NRMedia (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\">\nDP<br \/>\nNgunjiri Wambugu<br \/>\nNyeri Town<br \/>\nRaila Odinga<br \/>\nWest Pokot<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after Deputy President William Ruto stormed West Pokoto county and accorded a massive reception, Nyeri Town MP Ngunjiri Wambugu has come out to weigh in on the same. This was after the DP was highly received in Sigor, Chepareria, Makutano, Kapenguria among other stopovers, eliciting speculations on whether West Pokot was Raila&#8217;s stronghold as [&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-918438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918438","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=918438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}