{"id":242010,"date":"2026-08-24T06:57:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kindiki-signals-bid-to-retain-deputy-president-slot-in-rutos-2027-re-election-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T06:57:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:57:01","slug":"kenya-kindiki-signals-bid-to-retain-deputy-president-slot-in-rutos-2027-re-election-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kindiki-signals-bid-to-retain-deputy-president-slot-in-rutos-2027-re-election-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Kindiki Signals Bid to Retain Deputy President Slot in Ruto&#8217;s 2027 Re-Election Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nairobi \u2014 Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has sent his clearest signal yet that he expects to remain President William Ruto&#8217;s second-in-command if the Kenya Kwanza administration secures a second term in the 2027 General Election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Kindiki, while addressing newly elected United Democratic Alliance (UDA) grassroots officials, projected confidence about remaining in office beyond the 2027 elections, saying he would defend his position and could not simply be removed from the Deputy Presidency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">&#8220;I,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608210570.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 Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has sent his clearest signal yet that he expects to remain President William Ruto&#8217;s second-in-command if the Kenya Kwanza administration secures a second term in the 2027 General Election. Kindiki, while addressing newly elected United Democratic Alliance (UDA) grassroots officials, projected confidence about remaining in office beyond the 2027 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":242011,"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":[258,256,10798,6012,4688,430,43933,257,7586,2450,13072,8892,12640,10503,9535,254],"class_list":["post-242010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-deputy","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kindiki","tag-news","tag-plan","tag-president","tag-reelection","tag-retain","tag-rutos","tag-signals","tag-slot","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/242010","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=242010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}