{"id":126689,"date":"2025-12-14T13:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T13:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/supremacy-battle-as-wamatangi-and-nganga-trade-barbs-before-ruto\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T13:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T13:07:15","slug":"supremacy-battle-as-wamatangi-and-nganga-trade-barbs-before-ruto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/supremacy-battle-as-wamatangi-and-nganga-trade-barbs-before-ruto\/","title":{"rendered":"Supremacy Battle as Wamatangi and Ng\u2019ang\u2019a Trade Barbs Before Ruto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 14 \u2013 Supremacy battles among Kiambu politicians and early manoeuvres for the 2027 general election played out publicly during President William Ruto\u2019s visit to a church fundraising service in Gatundu North.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The political rivalry pit Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi against a group of leaders led by Gatundu North MP Njoroge Kururia and Thika Town MP Alice Ng\u2019ang\u2019a. <\/p>\n<p>Ng\u2019ang\u2019a openly declared her intention to challenge Wamatangi for the governorship in 2027, remarks that drew heckling from a section of the congregation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause very soon, I will be the boss here in Kiambu County, Mr President. Here they call me Mama Simba,\u201d Ng\u2019ang\u2019a said.<\/p>\n<p>Kururia further escalated the rivalry by referring to Ng\u2019ang\u2019a as the \u201cincoming governor\u201d and Wamatangi as the \u201coutgoing governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Governor Wamatangi exuded confidence about retaining the seat in 2027, dismissing his rivals as lacking tangible development records and relying on empty rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work we shall continue with, Your Excellency. In 2027, politics will sort itself out and move on. I am the sitting Governor of Kiambu County, and I am the Governor-to-be of Kiambu. Kururia, do not doubt it,\u201d Wamatangi said.<\/p>\n<p>President Ruto was forced to intervene, warning the leaders against infighting and premature politicking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can see politics here is heating up, but I want to clarify something. I have heard people saying there is an election in January, and it seems it has confused some of you. The January election is not for the governor; it is for the UDA party. So calm down for now \u2014 the governor\u2019s election will come later,\u201d President Ruto said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 14 \u2013 Supremacy battles among Kiambu politicians and early manoeuvres for the 2027 general election played out publicly during President William Ruto\u2019s visit to a church fundraising service in Gatundu North. The political rivalry pit Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi against a group of leaders led by Gatundu North MP Njoroge Kururia and [&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-126689","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\/126689","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=126689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}