{"id":180824,"date":"2024-09-18T21:46:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T19:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-over-2000-njuri-ncheke-elders-break-ties-with-gachagua\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T21:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T19:46:06","slug":"kenya-over-2000-njuri-ncheke-elders-break-ties-with-gachagua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-over-2000-njuri-ncheke-elders-break-ties-with-gachagua\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Over 2,000 Njuri Ncheke Elders Break Ties With Gachagua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Over 2,000 Njuri Ncheke elders have broken ranks with Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and endorsed Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki as their link to President William Ruto.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The elders drawn from Meru and Tharaka declared their allegiance to Kindiki stating that he will henceforth represent their interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">500 elders drawn from Embu, Meru, and Tharaka Nithi Counties last week endorsed Kindiki as their link with President Ruto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">&#8220;To ensure we remain focused on development, we&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409180577.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Over 2,000 Njuri Ncheke elders have broken ranks with Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and endorsed Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki as their link to President William Ruto. The elders drawn from Meru and Tharaka declared their allegiance to Kindiki stating that he will henceforth represent their interests. 500 elders drawn from Embu, Meru, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":180825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6913,9585,36131,4688,430,39873,257,39872,254,7051],"class_list":["post-180824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-break","tag-elders","tag-gachagua","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-ncheke","tag-news","tag-njuri","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ties"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}