{"id":237959,"date":"2026-07-02T04:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-meets-wanjigi-as-2027-opposition-talks-gather-pace\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T04:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:58:09","slug":"kenya-gachagua-meets-wanjigi-as-2027-opposition-talks-gather-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-meets-wanjigi-as-2027-opposition-talks-gather-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Gachagua Meets Wanjigi As 2027 Opposition Talks Gather Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has intensified consultations ahead of the 2027 General Election after hosting businessman and Safina Party leader Jimi Wanjigi at his Wamunyoro residence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The meeting comes as opposition leaders continue efforts to build a united front aimed at challenging President William Ruto in the next election, with Gachagua describing the discussions as part of wider consultations on forming what he called the &#8220;6th Administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Sharing details after&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607010472.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 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has intensified consultations ahead of the 2027 General Election after hosting businessman and Safina Party leader Jimi Wanjigi at his Wamunyoro residence. The meeting comes as opposition leaders continue efforts to build a united front aimed at challenging President William Ruto in the next election, with Gachagua describing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":237960,"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":[258,256,36131,17141,4688,430,6271,257,5675,11745,254,5038,18772],"class_list":["post-237959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gachagua","tag-gather","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-meets","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-pace","tag-south-africa-today","tag-talks","tag-wanjigi"],"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\/237959","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=237959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}