{"id":206415,"date":"2025-09-06T18:19:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mukhisa-kituyi-picked-as-voice-of-united-opposition\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:19:55","slug":"kenya-mukhisa-kituyi-picked-as-voice-of-united-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mukhisa-kituyi-picked-as-voice-of-united-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Mukhisa Kituyi Picked as Voice of United Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Former UN trade chief Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi has been unveiled as the new spokesperson and Head of Secretariat for the United Opposition, a coalition of parties seeking to build a formidable challenge against President William Ruto in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The announcement came on Wednesday evening through former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, who confirmed the appointment after a strategy meeting with other leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">\u201cThe United Opposition has appointed Hon. Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi as their spokesperson and the Head&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509040124.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>Former UN trade chief Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi has been unveiled as the new spokesperson and Head of Secretariat for the United Opposition, a coalition of parties seeking to build a formidable challenge against President William Ruto in 2027. The announcement came on Wednesday evening through former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, who confirmed the appointment after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":206416,"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":[258,256,4688,430,52272,52271,257,5675,26329,254,7866,10858],"class_list":["post-206415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kituyi","tag-mukhisa","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-picked","tag-south-africa-today","tag-united","tag-voice"],"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\/206415","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=206415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}