{"id":7593,"date":"2022-05-16T07:55:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T07:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7593"},"modified":"2022-05-16T07:56:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T07:56:03","slug":"muthomi-njuki-responds-to-dp-rutos-decision-not-nominate-kindiki-as-his-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7593","title":{"rendered":"Muthomi Njuki Responds To Dp Ruto&#8217;s decision not to nominate Kindiki as his Running Mate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tharaka Nithi Governor Muthomi Njuki has responded to DP Ruto&#8217;s decision not to nominate Senator Kithure Kindiki as his runningmate for the August 9 Presidential race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kindiki was conspicuously absent from DP Ruto\u2019s Karen event, where Mathira MP Rigathi Gachagua was unveiled as the Kenya Kwanza Presidential runningmate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Ruto had no problem settling for either Gachagua or Kindiki, a majority of Mt Kenya MPs in the Kenya Kwanza Alliance rooted for Prof. Kindiki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who vouched for Kindiki say he was best placed to complement Dr. Ruto&#8217;s aggressive character, and would make a great diplomat as the country&#8217;s number two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FB_IMG_1652687319661-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FB_IMG_1652687319661-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FB_IMG_1652687319661-1-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 720px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tharaka Nithi Governor Muthomi Njuki has responded to DP Ruto&#8217;s decision not to nominate Senator Kithure Kindiki as his runningmate for the August 9 Presidential race. Kindiki was conspicuously absent from DP Ruto\u2019s Karen event, where Mathira MP Rigathi Gachagua was unveiled as the Kenya Kwanza Presidential runningmate. While Ruto had no problem settling for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FB_IMG_1652687319661.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7597,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions\/7597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}