{"id":12582,"date":"2026-01-09T05:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/12582\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T05:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:56:08","slug":"ruto-the-unloved-but-unbeatable-candidate-africa-confidential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/12582\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruto \u2013 the unloved but unbeatable candidate &#8211; Africa Confidential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipwFBVV95cUxPUDhaVWxEZTdxR2VjV20ybjFKREExYUJkNlRoeUhoRXhUd0g5NzFyTkxuSWZNLTJBeVVxUmN0d1pIMTlYM3ZNN0RBVGRhcXZUNlh6VFFZSUtXWkZIdUVicGM4N3lIc2dVblBqUlZsNlZQTFFYdW1NS0YzQjZJT1UtbUFpdGlqamlFY1lZeF9aR2lKcUJnTUVVaTJfYmZNeWRnRWdvX2VQTQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ruto \u2013 the unloved but unbeatable candidate<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Africa Confidential<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirwFBVV95cUxPTFFzUXVzcWtFc2pobzRmcGtLdlhQcVJ6SmIxbTNEd2hKYld3UHNZdnhjOTE3ZGFSQU1ScGJ1bWRuazI5ZGtTSU5rOWROUG5EMVh2V0puT09FbURTNExSQjNFb3VYeUZCSlBFQWdWN21wM0ZkVXUyUUY3ZG83ZGQ4UUhVTHdmZ09lYU00ZkQ4X0RadlVMUGVKRHhyRzYxZkZpeE9XODA3a3Vaa19BSURV?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">OKANGO: How Ruto is quietly building his 2027 re-election machine<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;the-star.co.ke<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisgFBVV95cUxONlFQTGJ1VW1VUzBYRjNraV84aTdONGZib082OWZmWjdCN3lRTGhWSFZhZFhkOUx6NlJ1LTdtbHA3NDUxYlczUzdSeHQ2SVNyaFg5ZzFZQzlYVFA3N29zWldhZEtfLTUzbDNFc2hfZmQ0WjN0OFc5MHZjVjZ2SFZTTHI5T1d0Ynh1TklYOS12T1ptRlJ4Y0VsbmNVTjFVM283aWp4QjRPVG5XdHplMUo5WEJn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;They have no plan,&#8217; President Ruto warns youth to avoid the Opposition<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Citizen Digital<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiswFBVV95cUxPdjRVODlvdHhpN1NVekVMY1hNc3JPRG9pMzNmMDEyRmZDb05yZFUteXNOUjVkaGxFZlctdjBVNVZxWjdJYzNYSEo5ZUtoV2VUQXYtV00zQTF6U0JSbS1SSUF2UFl1bUVrdFFUT0Vfa1ZscDZZUDJsaXBuOFhJOTdWak1JRk5iZmM0OENFUUtfMWdFRG9wcU1yRmNLY1ZJU2JZUnRmSUcxMmNTcEdhQkd0SG1nRQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u2018We must do things differently,\u2019 Ruto says as Sh5 trillion plan rolls out<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;the-star.co.ke<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMizAFBVV95cUxPRkxDaTFiX29YdjlwemNkZDZqS1pUUnJNUkR2RjNqTENEQUtJYnZwVUtSYUZUd2xmLUx2N1hkci1nUW1LY0w3SzlKaWpDNmNNRVB6T3pGNGo0dE9mOFlITkJrdkVIU3BDZXBPLWRtN3hGVmJmU1o1dzNEOEtCdE5CbUg4Y2tKX3hoYlV0WnAzUEI4VkJSMEtVNVlhcUpBM0NvSXJlSmRiZ0FCWE4ybTBmUkhKOVVoT3NxXzgtMVVuR0tIOWJiZHZlV2M3U3Y?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ruto challenges Kalonzo to state track record, accuses him of failing to build Tseikuru road<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;standardmedia.co.ke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruto \u2013 the unloved but unbeatable candidate&nbsp;&nbsp;Africa ConfidentialOKANGO: How Ruto is quietly building his 2027 re-election machine&nbsp;&nbsp;the-star.co.ke&#8216;They have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[8413,3806,8561,8565,321,2198,7139,8563,8566,2728,80,8559,3449,8562,8560,2206,1347,8558,3949,2207,2679,1346,8564],"class_list":{"0":"post-12582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-africa-in-2026","9":"tag-babu-owino","10":"tag-david-maraga","11":"tag-dream-on","12":"tag-east-africa","13":"tag-edwin-sifuna","14":"tag-fred-matiangi","15":"tag-gladys-wanga","16":"tag-john-mbadi","17":"tag-kalonzo-musyoka","18":"tag-kenya","19":"tag-kithure-kindiki","20":"tag-musalia-mudavadi","21":"tag-oburu-oginga","22":"tag-okiya-omtatah","23":"tag-raila-odinga","24":"tag-rigathi-gachagua","25":"tag-ruto-the-unloved-but-unbeatable-candidate","26":"tag-singapore","27":"tag-uhuru-kenyatta","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-william-ruto","30":"tag-winnie-odinga"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}