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Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto’s re-election chances appear more real and solid following Thursday’s by-elections, after his ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA) posted a clean sweep across four seats in different regions of the country.<\/p>\n
The results mark a second straight setback for the United Opposition led by former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua, which has been campaigning to deny Ruto a second term in 2027.<\/p>\n
The opposition also lost in the November 2025 by-elections, including the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto’s re-election chances appear more real and solid following Thursday’s by-elections, after his ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA) posted a clean sweep across four seats in different regions of the country. The results mark a second straight setback for the United Opposition led by former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua, which has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":225486,"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":[258,256,53771,19042,4688,430,48400,257,5675,254,7907,38657,6552],"class_list":["post-225485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gazeti","tag-hype","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-moto","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turns","tag-uda","tag-wins"],"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\/225485","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=225485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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