{"id":7751,"date":"2022-05-24T12:36:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T12:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7751"},"modified":"2022-05-24T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T12:36:38","slug":"choosing-a-running-mate-is-like-choosing-your-better-half-rigathi-gachagua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7751","title":{"rendered":"Choosing a running mate is like choosing your better half -Rigathi Gachagua"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Choosing a running mate is like choosing your better half this is according to Rigathi Gachagua .This comes after controversial reports that Kithure Kindiki beat him during a poll that was conducted by UDA MPs .Gachagua went on to claim that the Deputy President consulted his allies heavily on his choice of the Deputy President hence there were no votes cast. He went ahead to say Kindiki and him are very close friends for a long time and they had both approached the Deputy President and had assured him that they will respect his decision and will work hand in hand with his preferred candidate.DP Ruto had already approached him and asked him to be his deputy six months prior before making it public this is according to the Mathira MP.He went on to add that the Dp was looking for a friend, a visionary person and one who had the interests of Kenyans at heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"1008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FB_IMG_1653395577287-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FB_IMG_1653395577287-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FB_IMG_1653395577287-1-480x672.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 720px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choosing a running mate is like choosing your better half this is according to Rigathi Gachagua .This comes after controversial reports that Kithure Kindiki beat him during a poll that was conducted by UDA MPs .Gachagua went on to claim that the Deputy President consulted his allies heavily on his choice of the Deputy President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7752,"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-7751","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_1653395577287.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751","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=7751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7754,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751\/revisions\/7754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}