{"id":9048,"date":"2022-09-09T10:22:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T10:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=9048"},"modified":"2022-09-09T10:22:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T10:22:31","slug":"francis-atwoli-swallows-his-pride-and-asks-azimio-to-support-ruto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=9048","title":{"rendered":"Francis Atwoli swallows his pride and asks Azimio to support Ruto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Workers union leader Francis Atwoli, who heavily campaigned against President-Elect William Ruto has swallowed the bitter pill and asked Azimio supporters to embrace the new leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Atwoli always called Ruto names, saying there is no way he was going to defeat Azimio Presidential candidate Raila Odinga in the August 9 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I was going around saying get used to your president, I didn\u2019t know that I actually meant Ruto,\u201d he said Friday, \u201cI have accepted the humiliating defeat we suffered as Azimio.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Atwoli urged Azimio supporters to embrace the new leader \u201cbecause that was the will of God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs human beings we plan, but it is God who always knows what is ahead and you can\u2019t argue with God. Our President is Ruto,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And he admitted that \u201cRuto is a smart politician and that is why he outsmarted us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGive it to Ruto because we slept knowing we have won, only to be surprised by the results,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Atwoli however, said he is happy because the Luhya community is represented in the Kenya Kwanza government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was referring to Ford Kenya party leader Moses Wetangula who resigned as Bungoma Senator on Thursday before he was elected National Assembly Speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_131057-1-1024x770.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_131057-1-980x737.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_131057-1-480x361.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers union leader Francis Atwoli, who heavily campaigned against President-Elect William Ruto has swallowed the bitter pill and asked Azimio supporters to embrace the new leader. Atwoli always called Ruto names, saying there is no way he was going to defeat Azimio Presidential candidate Raila Odinga in the August 9 election. \u201cWhen I was going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9049,"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-9048","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\/09\/20220909_131057.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9048","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=9048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9051,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9048\/revisions\/9051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}