{"id":229349,"date":"2026-04-03T01:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kahiga-backs-ruto-citing-development-record\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:37:18","slug":"kenya-kahiga-backs-ruto-citing-development-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kahiga-backs-ruto-citing-development-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Kahiga Backs Ruto Citing Development Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nairobi \u2014 Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga has defended his decision to support President William Ruto, saying he will continue working with him because the government is delivering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Speaking during the AIPCA Holy Oil Consecration at Mukaro South Diocese in Nyeri County, Kahiga addressed growing questions over his political shift, having previously been a close ally of opposition leader Rigathi Gachagua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;To those of you wondering why I am walking with the President, I have answered you,&#8221; Kahiga&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604020537.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 Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga has defended his decision to support President William Ruto, saying he will continue working with him because the government is delivering. Speaking during the AIPCA Holy Oil Consecration at Mukaro South Diocese in Nyeri County, Kahiga addressed growing questions over his political shift, having previously been a close ally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":229350,"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":[258,256,7102,6339,5989,32494,4688,430,257,5267,11238,254],"class_list":["post-229349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backs","tag-citing","tag-development","tag-kahiga","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-record","tag-ruto","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\/229349","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=229349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}