{"id":212149,"date":"2025-11-01T08:39:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-graphic-falsely-claims-kenyas-ruto-planned-to-support-late-opposition-veteran-odingas-2027-bid-for-president\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T08:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:39:56","slug":"kenya-graphic-falsely-claims-kenyas-ruto-planned-to-support-late-opposition-veteran-odingas-2027-bid-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-graphic-falsely-claims-kenyas-ruto-planned-to-support-late-opposition-veteran-odingas-2027-bid-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Graphic Falsely Claims Kenya&#8217;s Ruto Planned to Support Late Opposition Veteran Odinga&#8217;s 2027 Bid for President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>Graphic falsely claims Kenya&#8217;s Ruto planned to support late opposition veteran Odinga&#8217;s 2027 bid for president<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> A graphic appearing to quote Kenya&#8217;s president William Ruto claims that he planned to support deceased veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga as president in the 2027 general election. But it is fake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;I was planning to support Baba for president come 2027,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/channelseventvofficial\/posts\/pfbid025Vu5HR4y518KUbWPUmVjYDcyryWrfexPQb7Y5jhxhK86vbMspc3MrfRKMspiPt9Gl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reads<\/a> a graphic that started circulating on Facebook in Kenya on 20 October 2025. The graphic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/280609633497831\/posts\/1429594478599335\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">features<\/a> an image of Kenya&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510310499.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>Graphic falsely claims Kenya&#8217;s Ruto planned to support late opposition veteran Odinga&#8217;s 2027 bid for president IN SHORT: A graphic appearing to quote Kenya&#8217;s president William Ruto claims that he planned to support deceased veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga as president in the 2027 general election. But it is fake. &#8220;I was planning to support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":212150,"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":[258,256,10798,8117,21307,28476,4688,430,6097,8262,257,11992,5675,7665,2450,11238,254,6096,8608],"class_list":["post-212149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-claims","tag-falsely","tag-graphic","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-late","tag-news","tag-odingas","tag-opposition","tag-planned","tag-president","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-veteran"],"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\/212149","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=212149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}