{"id":215578,"date":"2025-12-03T10:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-i-can-sit-wamauas-remarks-on-governor-seat-draw-sharp-criticism\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:08:12","slug":"kenya-i-can-sit-wamauas-remarks-on-governor-seat-draw-sharp-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-i-can-sit-wamauas-remarks-on-governor-seat-draw-sharp-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: &#8216;I Can Sit!&#8217; &#8211; Wamaua&#8217;s Remarks On Governor Seat Draw Sharp Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Maragua MP Mary Wamaua is facing sharp criticism after a viral video showed her using an unorthodox and controversial metaphor to assert her suitability for the Murang&#8217;a gubernatorial seat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">In a viral video, Wamaua sought to assert her suitability for the Murang&#8217;a gubernatorial seat in her quest to unseat Governor Irungu Kang&#8217;ata.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">While emphasizing her qualifications and confidence, she made remarks that sparked debate over appropriateness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512030127.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 \u2014 Maragua MP Mary Wamaua is facing sharp criticism after a viral video showed her using an unorthodox and controversial metaphor to assert her suitability for the Murang&#8217;a gubernatorial seat. In a viral video, Wamaua sought to assert her suitability for the Murang&#8217;a gubernatorial seat in her quest to unseat Governor Irungu Kang&#8217;ata. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":215579,"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":[258,256,11451,6981,4269,4688,430,257,9469,8545,15030,21337,254,53027],"class_list":["post-215578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-criticism","tag-draw","tag-governor","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-remarks","tag-seat","tag-sharp","tag-sit","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wamauas"],"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\/215578","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=215578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}