{"id":7826,"date":"2022-05-30T09:32:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T09:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7826"},"modified":"2022-05-30T09:32:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T09:32:32","slug":"there-was-drama-at-the-bomas-of-kenya-where-the-usawa-kwa-wote-presidential-candidate-dissented-removal-of-his-name-from-nomination-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7826","title":{"rendered":"There was drama at the Bomas of Kenya where the Usawa Kwa Wote presidential candidate dissented removal of his name from nomination register"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Murang\u2019a Governor Mwangi wa Iria who is seeking the presidency interrogated why his name had been removed from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission schedule yet he submitted all the initial requirements despite IEBC claiming he had not met the threshold for signatures.<br>\u201cEven people who failed to meet requirements are in the schedule but my name has been removed\u2026 no election will be conducted if I will not contest,\u201d he threatened.<br>Wa Iria insisted that he met all the requirements including bringing signatures from supporters in 24 counties as required and the commission even acknowledged receipt.<br>\u201cWe cannot start rigging that far\u2026 We even have photos of your people going through item per item with our people,\u201d Wa Iria protested.<br>\u201cThey have deliberately removed my name today by throwing them in the toilet. How comes no one has told me anything!\u201d the governor questioned..<br>Following the upheaval, the governor was scheduled to meet IEBC Chair Wafula Chebukati on Monday to have his matter addressed.<br>He however said he will not leave the building until his queries were addressed<br>\u201cI am not leaving this place, even if you send me the Russian troops,\u201d he said, demanding an audience from Chebukati.<br>Wa Iria had recently unveiled Alfayo Onyambu as his running mate ahead of the August elections.<\/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_1653902906409-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FB_IMG_1653902906409-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FB_IMG_1653902906409-1-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 720px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murang\u2019a Governor Mwangi wa Iria who is seeking the presidency interrogated why his name had been removed from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission schedule yet he submitted all the initial requirements despite IEBC claiming he had not met the threshold for signatures.\u201cEven people who failed to meet requirements are in the schedule but my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7827,"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-7826","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_1653902906409.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7826","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=7826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7829,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7826\/revisions\/7829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}