{"id":238576,"date":"2026-07-12T17:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T15:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-faults-ethekon-over-poll-cancellation-threat-urges-action-against-voter-bribery-by-state-officials\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T17:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T15:27:20","slug":"kenya-gachagua-faults-ethekon-over-poll-cancellation-threat-urges-action-against-voter-bribery-by-state-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-faults-ethekon-over-poll-cancellation-threat-urges-action-against-voter-bribery-by-state-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Gachagua Faults Ethekon Over Poll Cancellation Threat, Urges Action Against Voter Bribery By State Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Nairobi \u2014 Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) leader Rigathi Gachagua has sharply criticized Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairperson Erastus Ethekon over remarks suggesting the Ol Kalou parliamentary by-election could be postponed because of insecurity and electoral malpractices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Addressing the media on Friday, the former Deputy President accused the electoral commission of attempting to lay the groundwork for postponing the July 16 poll, claiming the move was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607100449.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 Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) leader Rigathi Gachagua has sharply criticized Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairperson Erastus Ethekon over remarks suggesting the Ol Kalou parliamentary by-election could be postponed because of insecurity and electoral malpractices. Addressing the media on Friday, the former Deputy President accused the electoral commission of attempting [&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":[6394,258,256,7673,15697,54828,17773,36131,4688,430,257,6651,7517,254,6017,6791,6810,7230],"class_list":["post-238576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bribery","tag-cancellation","tag-ethekon","tag-faults","tag-gachagua","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-poll","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-threat","tag-urges","tag-voter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238576","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=238576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238576\/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=238576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}