{"id":14198,"date":"2026-01-09T23:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/14198\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:35:13","slug":"joho-uses-raila-birthday-to-boost-political-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/14198\/","title":{"rendered":"Joho uses Raila &#8216;birthday&#8217; to boost political capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OT6KrsurLtO1y9I1u7ZriRPI4vwp7fcXGXM4OfQe.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nODM \u00a0Governors, Senators and MPs dance during the celebration to mark the birthday of the late Party leader, Raila Odinga. [Omondi Onyango,Standard]<\/p>\n<p class=\"card-text\">&#8220;It was all about Hassan Joho&#8217;s 2027 political survival.&#8221; This is how a senior politician who attended Wednesday&#8217;s late Raila <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/politics\/article\/2001538039\/betrayed-in-death-inside-odms-rivalry-greed-killing-raila-odingas-legacy#google_vignette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Odinga&#8217;s 81st birthday celebrations i<\/a>n Mombasa described it.\n<\/p>\n<p>The MP, a close ally of Joho, said the real agenda of the celebration, attended by over 2000 delegates in Mombasa, was to rally the coast region behind Joho&#8217;s ambitions in 2027 and 2032.<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Unlock the Full Story \u2014 Join Thousands of Informed Kenyans Today\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    Unlimited access to all premium content<br \/>\n                    Uninterrupted ad-free browsing experience<br \/>\n                    Mobile-optimized reading experience<br \/>\n                    Weekly Newsletters<br \/>\n                    MPesa, Airtel Money and Cards accepted<\/p>\n<p>                                <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va0PRAYGk1Fo4ODHAg0b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Follow The Standard<br \/>\n                                    channel<br \/>\n                                    on WhatsApp<\/a><br \/>\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ODM \u00a0Governors, Senators and MPs dance during the celebration to mark the birthday of the late Party leader,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[9489,80,2206,9490],"class_list":{"0":"post-14198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-hassan-joho2027-elections","9":"tag-kenya","10":"tag-raila-odinga","11":"tag-railas-81st-birthday"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14198","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=14198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}