{"id":8614,"date":"2022-08-02T06:47:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T06:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=8614"},"modified":"2022-08-02T06:47:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T06:47:57","slug":"elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=8614","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/section\/august-elections\/\">ELECTIONS<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Uhuru Drums Up Support For Raila In Kisumu, Urges Kenyans To Vote For Him<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Uhuru-Kisumu-scaled-e1659419300930-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Uhuru-Kisumu-scaled-e1659419300930-1.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Uhuru-Kisumu-scaled-e1659419300930-1-480x329.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 630px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Kenyatta who addressed thousands of Kisumu residents on Monday said only maximum votes from Odinga\u2019s political bedrock will propel him to State House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He says it is easier to say than done that the 5th President will be Odinga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI agree you have accepted that he will be the next president but only if you turn out in large numbers and cast your votes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He noted that majority of Odinga\u2019s supporters always disappoint at the ballot, after failing to show up to cast their votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn the election day, you find people going to drink first, some saying Raila has won, and they end up not voting,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The President further noted that on the election day, everyone must be vigilant to identify those who have not voted and advise them to go to the polling stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He joked that those who will be walking with no ink on their nails, a mark by IEBC to those who have voted, should be ignored and pushed to go cast their votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He stated that is the only surest way to ensure total turn out of voters at the ballot to propel Odinga to the coveted seat at State House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uhuru Drums Up Support For Raila In Kisumu, Urges Kenyans To Vote For Him President Kenyatta who addressed thousands of Kisumu residents on Monday said only maximum votes from Odinga\u2019s political bedrock will propel him to State House. He says it is easier to say than done that the 5th President will be Odinga. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8615,"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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Uhuru-Kisumu-scaled-e1659419300930.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614","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=8614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8617,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions\/8617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}