{"id":216581,"date":"2025-12-13T22:28:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-evidence-kenyas-ex-deputy-president-rigathi-gachagua-hinted-at-rejoining-government\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:28:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:28:50","slug":"kenya-no-evidence-kenyas-ex-deputy-president-rigathi-gachagua-hinted-at-rejoining-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-evidence-kenyas-ex-deputy-president-rigathi-gachagua-hinted-at-rejoining-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: No Evidence Kenya&#8217;s Ex-Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua Hinted At Rejoining Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> Four graphics with logos of different Facebook pages quote former Kenyan deputy president Rigathi Gachagua as saying he is ready to rejoin the government and work with president William Ruto. However, we found no evidence that he made such remarks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1399723791781747&amp;set=a.353800966374040\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">graphics<\/a> attributing the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=840077908660845&amp;set=a.154952957173347\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quote<\/a> to former Kenyan deputy president <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rigathi?fbclid=IwY2xjawLl-UZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCRUVxY3d5Ynh5VUR3bllvAR5vlgyfHQbIdgJf28UHK-FpQfV5ONmHhr6fLvqVNq9-l9xeTKLzW9j8PWn7VA_aem_OR-pi2LvpSrh7RRSnXRpCw\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rigathi Gachagua<\/a> are doing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=1156263946621999&amp;set=pb.100067152121032.-2207520000&amp;type=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rounds<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=846715211672830&amp;set=a.100641096280249\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quote<\/a>, Gachagua appears to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1585689196108253&amp;set=gm.1150210013983852&amp;idorvanity=165380942466769\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hint<\/a> at rejoining the ruling <a href=\"https:\/\/uda.ke\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Democratic Alliance<\/a> (UDA) party, saying he&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512120483.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>IN SHORT: Four graphics with logos of different Facebook pages quote former Kenyan deputy president Rigathi Gachagua as saying he is ready to rejoin the government and work with president William Ruto. However, we found no evidence that he made such remarks. Four graphics attributing the same quote to former Kenyan deputy president Rigathi Gachagua [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":216582,"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":[258,256,7013,13744,36131,6427,53129,4688,430,6097,257,2450,45228,36130,254],"class_list":["post-216581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-evidence","tag-exdeputy","tag-gachagua","tag-government","tag-hinted","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-news","tag-president","tag-rejoining","tag-rigathi","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\/216581","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=216581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}