{"id":204984,"date":"2025-08-19T04:20:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-phantom-poll-ranks-kenyas-former-deputy-president-gachagua-as-leading-opposition-figure\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T04:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:20:52","slug":"kenya-phantom-poll-ranks-kenyas-former-deputy-president-gachagua-as-leading-opposition-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-phantom-poll-ranks-kenyas-former-deputy-president-gachagua-as-leading-opposition-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Phantom Poll Ranks Kenya&#8217;s Former Deputy President Gachagua As Leading Opposition Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em>Phantom poll ranks Kenya&#8217;s former deputy president Gachagua as leading opposition figure <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> A graphic attributes a poll to Infotrak, claiming that Rigathi Gachagua is the most popular figure in Kenya&#8217;s opposition. However, we did not find any publicly available evidence of such a poll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nligare\/posts\/pfbid02arDUY635GQdt9PqAFdYy5kc6iLQuHAg3SLxGjwUjXimu5L8WxzR24RD1WJ8p5hS8l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">graphic<\/a> circulating on social media appears to show the results of an Infotrak opinion poll in which Kenyans have been asked: &#8220;Which opposition will you vote for if elections are held today?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">According to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508180659.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>Phantom poll ranks Kenya&#8217;s former deputy president Gachagua as leading opposition figure IN SHORT: A graphic attributes a poll to Infotrak, claiming that Rigathi Gachagua is the most popular figure in Kenya&#8217;s opposition. However, we did not find any publicly available evidence of such a poll. A graphic circulating on social media appears to show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":204985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6012,6415,36131,4688,430,6097,6301,257,5675,52145,7517,2450,9885,254],"class_list":["post-204984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deputy","tag-figure","tag-gachagua","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-leading","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-phantom","tag-poll","tag-president","tag-ranks","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/204984","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=204984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}