{"id":125171,"date":"2025-11-22T07:05:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/oburu-announces-short-sabbatical-amid-concerns-over-his-health\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:05:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:05:33","slug":"oburu-announces-short-sabbatical-amid-concerns-over-his-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/oburu-announces-short-sabbatical-amid-concerns-over-his-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Oburu announces short sabbatical amid concerns over his health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Nov 22 \u2013 Orange Democratic Movement Party Leader Oburu Oginga has moved to reassure supporters and the public amid growing speculation about his health, saying he remains in \u2018good health and high spirits.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a brief statement on his X account, Oburu expressed gratitude for the outpouring of concern in recent days, noting that the interest shown in his wellbeing was both humbling and encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>The 82 year-old politician confirmed he will be taking a \u2018short sabbatical\u2019, describing it as a personal retreat meant to allow him time to \u201crecollect, recharge, and reset\u201d before returning to active political engagements.<\/p>\n<p>Oburu was last week crowned the new ODM party leader after the death of his younger brother Raila Odinga. The former Prime Minister, 80 died in India on November 15, where he had gone for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Oburu\u2019s last public engagement was on November 20 when he led campaigns for Boyd Were, the ODM Candidate in the upcoming Kasipul By-Election<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Nov 22 \u2013 Orange Democratic Movement Party Leader Oburu Oginga has moved to reassure supporters and the public amid growing speculation about his health, saying he remains in \u2018good health and high spirits.\u2019 In a brief statement on his X account, Oburu expressed gratitude for the outpouring of concern in recent days, noting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}