{"id":222878,"date":"2026-02-05T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-why-i-quit-rutos-uda-for-gachaguas-dcp-havi\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:30:50","slug":"kenya-why-i-quit-rutos-uda-for-gachaguas-dcp-havi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-why-i-quit-rutos-uda-for-gachaguas-dcp-havi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Why I Quit Ruto&#8217;s UDA for Gachagua&#8217;s DCP &#8211; Havi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Nairobi \u2014 Westlands parliamentary hopeful and senior counsel Nelson Havi has defended his decision to quit the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), saying his exit was prompted by internal party processes that sidelined him and undermined democratic participation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Speaking during an interview on Nation FM, Havi said he was effectively locked out of UDA&#8217;s grassroots elections held in April 2024 after his name was removed from the party&#8217;s voter register at his polling station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">&#8220;I am a registered&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602050150.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 Westlands parliamentary hopeful and senior counsel Nelson Havi has defended his decision to quit the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), saying his exit was prompted by internal party processes that sidelined him and undermined democratic participation. Speaking during an interview on Nation FM, Havi said he was effectively locked out of UDA&#8217;s grassroots elections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":222879,"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":[258,256,51523,46599,39175,4688,430,257,10549,12640,254,38657],"class_list":["post-222878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dcp","tag-gachaguas","tag-havi","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-quit","tag-rutos","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uda"],"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\/222878","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=222878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}