{"id":16420,"date":"2026-01-11T03:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/16420\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T03:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:53:10","slug":"gachagua-shadow-looms-as-uda-holds-party-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/16420\/","title":{"rendered":"Gachagua shadow looms as UDA holds party polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Gd0qi8XDuqzgTgnExU1d6NEAlSzMv0hcTH8qctB4.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nUDA members after participating in grassroots elections in Vihiga County on January 10, 2026. [Brian Kisanji, Standard]<\/p>\n<p class=\"card-text\">The ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA) yesterday conducted grassroots elections in 20 counties, in an exercise marred by low voter turnout and delays in the delivery of election materials.\n<\/p>\n<p>President William Ruto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/politics\/article\/2001538230\/chaos-confusion-and-rigging-claims-mar-uda-western-party-primaries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joined other\u00a0UDA\u00a0members <\/a>in voting at Koilel Primary School in Ainabkoi, Uasin Gishu County, at around 9am. The Head of State, who is also the party\u2019s national chairperson, was accompanied by Uasin Gishu Senator Jackson Mandago.<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Bold Reporting Takes Time, Courage and Investment. Stand With Us.\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":"UDA members after participating in grassroots elections in Vihiga County on January 10, 2026. [Brian Kisanji, Standard] The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[10603,80,10602,10601],"class_list":{"0":"post-16420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-gachaguas-dcp-party","9":"tag-kenya","10":"tag-mt-kenya-region","11":"tag-uda-grassroot-electionsmt-kenya-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420","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=16420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}