{"id":233891,"date":"2026-05-21T03:24:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/uganda-no-evidence-ugandan-president-yoweri-museveni-asked-kenyans-to-support-president-ruto-ahead-of-the-2027-election\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T03:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:24:53","slug":"uganda-no-evidence-ugandan-president-yoweri-museveni-asked-kenyans-to-support-president-ruto-ahead-of-the-2027-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/uganda-no-evidence-ugandan-president-yoweri-museveni-asked-kenyans-to-support-president-ruto-ahead-of-the-2027-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: No Evidence Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni Asked Kenyans to Support President Ruto Ahead of the 2027 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>No evidence Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni asked Kenyans to support president Ruto ahead of the 2027 election<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> A graphic that appears to quote Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, urging Kenyans to support president William Ruto to achieve economic development, is going viral on social media. However, the graphic and quote are fabricated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has urged Kenyans to support president William Ruto if they wish for economic development, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1420630750075628&amp;set=a.628206845984693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=122167925120927997&amp;set=a.122107982474927997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">graphic<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605200634.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>No evidence Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni asked Kenyans to support president Ruto ahead of the 2027 election IN SHORT: A graphic that appears to quote Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, urging Kenyans to support president William Ruto to achieve economic development, is going viral on social media. However, the graphic and quote are fabricated. Ugandan president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":233892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681428:436d4503476e1400e0e2d47e8055c190:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7019,7548,3119,7013,430,9058,7776,257,2450,11238,254,6096,4707,6337,38349],"class_list":["post-233891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-asked","tag-election","tag-evidence","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyans","tag-museveni","tag-news","tag-president","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-uganda","tag-ugandan","tag-yoweri"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681428:436d4503476e1400e0e2d47e8055c190:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233891","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=233891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}