{"id":3117,"date":"2026-01-04T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/3117\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:30:08","slug":"gachagua-differs-with-kalonzo-on-naming-of-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/3117\/","title":{"rendered":"Gachagua differs with Kalonzo on naming of presidential candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"card-text\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ZYwQbWWNwCRHLuqk4nKRD9jEWi9MVxkggvHPUv7Y.jpg\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has rejected Wiper leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001537512\/opposition-to-pick-2027-presidential-flagbearer-by-march-2026-says-kalonzo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kalonzo Musyoka&#8217;s proposal<\/a> to name United opposition&#8217;s flag bearer in April this year, saying it will be months before the General Election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Uncover the stories others won\u2019t tell. Subscribe now for exclusive access\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":"Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has rejected Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka&#8217;s proposal to name United opposition&#8217;s flag bearer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[2729,2728,80,2727],"class_list":{"0":"post-3117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-2027-presidential-election","9":"tag-kalonzo-musyoka","10":"tag-kenya","11":"tag-united-oppositionrigathi-gachagua"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117","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=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}