{"id":918655,"date":"2022-01-22T16:02:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T16:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/22\/i-dont-see-the-reason-i-should-contest-raila-says-threatening-to-pull-out-of-statehouse-race\/"},"modified":"2022-01-22T16:02:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T16:02:51","slug":"i-dont-see-the-reason-i-should-contest-raila-says-threatening-to-pull-out-of-statehouse-race-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/22\/i-dont-see-the-reason-i-should-contest-raila-says-threatening-to-pull-out-of-statehouse-race-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Don&#8217;t See The Reason I Should Contest&#8221; Raila Says Threatening To Pull Out Of Statehouse Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has hit headlines with his statements that he made in Nyanza region when he had toured to launch development projects in Homabay County. The ODM leader spoke about the voter registration exercise in the Nyanza region which is his stronghold where he asked the locals to register as voters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/71e4d7ff690843eb9c1e2d97ce565cee\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Raila expressed dissatisfaction with the way his strongholds are registering as voters saying that if they do not come out in large numbers he will quit the presidential race. Raila said this reminding the locals that his rivals are registering in high Numbers to vote in August elections while his backyard is lagging behind.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/6857211ffdd64b6dbb582dce3f39685c\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My rivals are having their people register as voters in large numbers because they have taken the presidential race in 2022 seriously. When I walk out there I am embarrassed because of the manner in which you are not taking this matter seriously. Do you want me to quit the race, if you did not register in numbers then I do not see the reason why I should contest. We have to take this matter seriously and register&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/b84cc335f04d4616b44b9b4eee3bb119\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Fulfutbol (via  Opera<br \/>\n News )<\/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\">\nNyanza<br \/>\nODM<br \/>\nRaila<br \/>\nRaila Odinga<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has hit headlines with his statements that he made in Nyanza region when he had toured to launch development projects in Homabay County. The ODM leader spoke about the voter registration exercise in the Nyanza region which is his stronghold where he asked the locals to register as voters. Raila [&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-918655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918655","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=918655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}