{"id":54629,"date":"2024-06-18T05:03:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T05:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/18\/uda-delegates-in-embakasi-east-protest-push-to-repeat-grassroots-polls\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T05:03:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T05:03:56","slug":"uda-delegates-in-embakasi-east-protest-push-to-repeat-grassroots-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/uda-delegates-in-embakasi-east-protest-push-to-repeat-grassroots-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"UDA delegates in Embakasi East protest push to repeat grassroots polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 18 \u2014 United Democratic Alliance (UDA) delegates in Nairobi\u2019s Embakasi East have protested plans to repeat the constituency\u2019s grassroots elections, terming a concluded exercise sufficient. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The caucus led by the party\u2019s Chairperson in the area accused a faction led by 2022 MP aspirant Francis Mureithi on attempting to corrupt officials of the ruling party to force a rerun to achieve a predetermined outcome.<\/p>\n<p>The delegates urged the party to instead focus on county elections to pick county-level officials including a Chairperson.<\/p>\n<p>The Nairobi UDA Chairperson contest pitting Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja against Embakasi North MP James Gakuya.<\/p>\n<p>They called on President William Ruto to crack the whip on those out to tarnish the party\u2019s name.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 18 \u2014 United Democratic Alliance (UDA) delegates in Nairobi\u2019s Embakasi East have protested plans to repeat the constituency\u2019s grassroots elections, terming a concluded exercise sufficient. The caucus led by the party\u2019s Chairperson in the area accused a faction led by 2022 MP aspirant Francis Mureithi on attempting to corrupt officials of the [&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-54629","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\/54629","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=54629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}