{"id":241602,"date":"2026-08-20T18:49:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-wiper-denies-kalonzo-gachagua-political-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:49:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:49:55","slug":"kenya-wiper-denies-kalonzo-gachagua-political-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-wiper-denies-kalonzo-gachagua-political-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Wiper Denies Kalonzo-Gachagua Political Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 Wiper Patriotic Front has dismissed reports suggesting that party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has struck a political deal with Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) leader Rigathi Gachagua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">In a statement issued on Wednesday Wiper said no exclusive political deal had been concluded between Kalonzo and Gachagua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The clarification follows reports that the two leaders had reached a political understanding after their meeting at Gachagua&#8217;s Wamunyoro residence on August 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608200605.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 Wiper Patriotic Front has dismissed reports suggesting that party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has struck a political deal with Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) leader Rigathi Gachagua. In a statement issued on Wednesday Wiper said no exclusive political deal had been concluded between Kalonzo and Gachagua. The clarification follows reports that the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":241603,"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":[258,256,7012,7651,55225,4688,430,257,6378,254,8800],"class_list":["post-241602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deal","tag-denies","tag-kalonzogachagua","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-political","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wiper"],"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\/241602","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=241602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}