{"id":208904,"date":"2025-10-04T07:40:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyas-ex-deputy-president-gachagua-didnt-call-opposition-politician-matiangi-a-mole-viral-front-page-altered\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T07:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:40:22","slug":"kenyas-ex-deputy-president-gachagua-didnt-call-opposition-politician-matiangi-a-mole-viral-front-page-altered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyas-ex-deputy-president-gachagua-didnt-call-opposition-politician-matiangi-a-mole-viral-front-page-altered\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s Ex-Deputy President Gachagua Didn&#8217;t Call Opposition Politician Matiang&#8217;i a Mole &#8211; Viral Front Page Altered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>Kenya&#8217;s ex-deputy president Gachagua didn&#8217;t call opposition politician Matiang&#8217;i a mole &#8211; viral front page altered<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> Just two days after Kenyan politician and presidential hopeful Fred Matiang&#8217;i attended a conference held by the country&#8217;s former ruling party, a newspaper front page claimed he had fallen out with ex-deputy president Rigathi Gachagua as a result. However, the front page has been fabricated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Kenyan politician and presidential hopeful Fred Matiang&#8217;i <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RealMatiangi\/status\/1971567165871632894\">attended<\/a> the former ruling <a...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510030484.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>Kenya&#8217;s ex-deputy president Gachagua didn&#8217;t call opposition politician Matiang&#8217;i a mole &#8211; viral front page altered IN SHORT: Just two days after Kenyan politician and presidential hopeful Fred Matiang&#8217;i attended a conference held by the country&#8217;s former ruling party, a newspaper front page claimed he had fallen out with ex-deputy president Rigathi Gachagua as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":208905,"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":[258,256,45330,6880,19218,13744,12334,36131,430,6097,11798,32484,257,5675,16851,8314,2450,254,13080],"class_list":["post-208904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-altered","tag-call","tag-didnt","tag-exdeputy","tag-front","tag-gachagua","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-matiangi","tag-mole","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-page","tag-politician","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-viral"],"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\/208904","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=208904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}