{"id":191547,"date":"2025-02-16T05:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T03:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-says-raila-fit-for-the-auc-position\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T05:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T03:13:21","slug":"kenya-gachagua-says-raila-fit-for-the-auc-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-says-raila-fit-for-the-auc-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Gachagua Says Raila Fit for the AUC Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nairobi Kenya \u2014 <em>Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has expressed his confidence in Kenya&#8217;s candidate for the Africa Union Chairmanship position Raila Odinga saying he is best fitted for the pos<\/em>t<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">In a statement on Friday, Gachagua said Raila&#8217;s world view and championship for the African people undoubtedly make him the best-suited candidate to lead the continent into the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">&#8220;Kenya&#8217;s finest, Right Honourable Raila Odinga, is undoubtedly the best candidate for the African Union Commission&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502140258.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 Kenya \u2014 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has expressed his confidence in Kenya&#8217;s candidate for the Africa Union Chairmanship position Raila Odinga saying he is best fitted for the post In a statement on Friday, Gachagua said Raila&#8217;s world view and championship for the African people undoubtedly make him the best-suited candidate to lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":191548,"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":[258,256,5444,14751,36131,4688,430,257,6941,10917,254],"class_list":["post-191547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-auc","tag-fit","tag-gachagua","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-position","tag-raila","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/191547","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=191547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}