{"id":4438,"date":"2021-10-30T10:16:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T10:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=4438"},"modified":"2021-10-30T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T10:30:00","slug":"kanu-endorses-veteran-politician-raila-odinga-ahead-of-kenya-s-presidential-elections-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/kanu-endorses-veteran-politician-raila-odinga-ahead-of-kenya-s-presidential-elections-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"KANU ENDORSES VETERAN POLITICIAN RAILA ODINGA AHEAD OF KENYA &#8216;S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS NEXT YEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KANU Party Secretary-General Hon Nick Salat an ally of Gideon Moi has finally announced that the party has resolved to support Raila Odinga&#8217;s 2022 Presidential Bid and other like-minded Kenyans who want to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta after the 2022 polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking during an exclusive interview with KTN News on Saturday morning, Hon Nick Salat has reported that the decision to back Raila&#8217;s Bid was arrived at after a thorough consultation with various Experts, who have advised that Raila has increased chances of winning the election compared to OKA and DP William Ruto&#8217;s efforts combined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenyans will go to the polls in August next year and the campaigns for the converted top seat are gaining momentum across Kenya. In bold message to the Kenyan voters outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta stated thus , &#8221; I urge you, don&#8217;t be incited. Choose leaders who will ensure this country remains peaceful and united  and those who will carry on with the work we already started and not take us back to where we came from. Please don&#8217;t allow Mwai kibakai&#8217;s 10 years and my 10 years to be destroyed by electing thugs and thieves.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANU Party Secretary-General Hon Nick Salat an ally of Gideon Moi has finally announced that the party has resolved to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eac-regional-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Raila-Odinga-and-Museveni-in-Iganga-2.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15799,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/kenyas-speaker-wetangula-hands-over-the-late-raila-odingas-hansard-record-to-ida-odinga-at-the-funeral\/","url_meta":{"origin":4438,"position":0},"title":"Kenya&#8217;s Speaker Wetang&#8217;ula Hands Over The Late Raila Odinga&#8217;s Hansard Record To Ida Odinga At  The Funeral","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"October 21, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"By Our Reporter in \ud835\udc01\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc27\ud835\udc1d\ud835\udc28, \ud835\udc12\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc32\ud835\udc1a \ud835\udc02\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc27\ud835\udc2d\ud835\udc32 The Speaker of the National Assembly, Rt. 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