{"id":239026,"date":"2026-07-19T05:40:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-makau-mutua-dismisses-ol-kalou-poll-as-nothingburger-says-2027-will-not-be-decided-in-mt-kenya\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T05:40:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:40:42","slug":"kenya-makau-mutua-dismisses-ol-kalou-poll-as-nothingburger-says-2027-will-not-be-decided-in-mt-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-makau-mutua-dismisses-ol-kalou-poll-as-nothingburger-says-2027-will-not-be-decided-in-mt-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Makau Mutua Dismisses Ol Kalou Poll As &#8216;Nothingburger&#8217;, Says 2027 Will Not Be Decided in Mt Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Nairobi \u2014 Presidential Advisor Makau Mutua has downplayed the political significance of the Ol Kalou parliamentary by-election, dismissing attempts to portray the opposition&#8217;s victory as a bellwether for the 2027 General Election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">In a statement posted on social media, Mutua described the outcome of the Nyandarua contest as &#8216;completely irrelevant and insignificant&#8217; to the national political landscape, insisting that it offers little indication of how Kenyans will vote in the next general&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607170600.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 Presidential Advisor Makau Mutua has downplayed the political significance of the Ol Kalou parliamentary by-election, dismissing attempts to portray the opposition&#8217;s victory as a bellwether for the 2027 General Election. In a statement posted on social media, Mutua described the outcome of the Nyandarua contest as &#8216;completely irrelevant and insignificant&#8217; to the national [&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":[258,256,13355,12843,8585,4688,430,42209,13259,257,54876,7517,254],"class_list":["post-239026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-decided","tag-dismisses","tag-kalou","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-makau","tag-mutua","tag-news","tag-nothingburger","tag-poll","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239026","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=239026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239026\/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=239026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}