{"id":238417,"date":"2026-07-10T17:23:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-former-kenyan-president-kenyatta-hasnt-endorsed-opposition-politician-edwin-sifuna-for-the-presidency-quote-is-fabricated\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:23:04","slug":"kenya-no-former-kenyan-president-kenyatta-hasnt-endorsed-opposition-politician-edwin-sifuna-for-the-presidency-quote-is-fabricated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-former-kenyan-president-kenyatta-hasnt-endorsed-opposition-politician-edwin-sifuna-for-the-presidency-quote-is-fabricated\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: No, Former Kenyan President Kenyatta Hasn&#8217;t Endorsed Opposition Politician Edwin Sifuna for the Presidency &#8211; Quote Is Fabricated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> Graphics quoting former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta as endorsing Edwin Sifuna for the presidency in 2027 are getting attention on social media. However, there is no evidence that Kenyatta has done so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta has endorsed opposition politician Edwin Sifuna for the presidency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=122185278338878946&amp;set=a.122124342668878946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to a quote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=122188795070478559&amp;set=gm.4111617165812613&amp;idorvanity=2481564658817880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">circulating<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1049242697546079&amp;set=gm.4431141547159989&amp;idorvanity=2183313581942808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The quote, in Kiswahili, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1049242434212772&amp;set=gm.1578388533871437&amp;idorvanity=235823308127973\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reads<\/a>: &#8220;Tamaa ya marehemu rafiki yangu Raila Odinga ilikuwa kuwa Rais. Lakini haikutimia. Mimi&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607100482.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>IN SHORT: Graphics quoting former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta as endorsing Edwin Sifuna for the presidency in 2027 are getting attention on social media. However, there is no evidence that Kenyatta has done so. Former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta has endorsed opposition politician Edwin Sifuna for the presidency, according to a quote circulating on social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,23732,9769,13093,28225,4688,430,4524,5726,257,5675,8314,8404,2450,20879,47245,254],"class_list":["post-238417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-edwin","tag-endorsed","tag-fabricated","tag-hasnt","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-kenyatta","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-politician","tag-presidency","tag-president","tag-quote","tag-sifuna","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238417","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=238417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}