{"id":12652,"date":"2022-02-24T11:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T11:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=12652"},"modified":"2022-02-24T11:07:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T11:07:41","slug":"uhurus-kin-anthony-wauthaka-to-run-for-makadara-mp-seat-on-uda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=12652","title":{"rendered":"Uhuru&#8217;s kin  Anthony Waithaka to run for Makadara MP seat on UDA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Uhuru Kenyatta\u2019s relative, a prominent businessman and Makadara parliamentary candidate Anthony Waithaka aka Anto has joined the Deputy President Willam Ruto\u2019s United Democratic Alliance (UDA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"731\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG-20220224-WA0030-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG-20220224-WA0030-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG-20220224-WA0030-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG-20220224-WA0030-768x1076.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG-20220224-WA0030.jpg 914w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>Do Ruto receiving <\/em><\/strong>Anthony Waithaka to UDA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Waithaka joined UDA on the same day his uncle in law, President Uhuru Kenyatta was meeting Mount Kenya leaders at Sagana State Lodge where he endorsed Ruto\u2019s main rival former Prime Minister Raila Odinga for the presidency in the forthcoming elections scheduled for August 9th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG-20220224-WA0027.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG-20220224-WA0027.jpg 540w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG-20220224-WA0027-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption>Waithaka <strong><em>Anthony <\/em><\/strong>with Uhuru Kenyatta.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Waithaka who had kept his cards close his chest on the party he was planning to use as his political vehicle but was being rumoured of running on a Jubilee ticket or the Raila led Azimio la Umoja alliance surprised many with the decision he took.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waithaka is expected to battle it out with the incumbent MP George Aladwa a first time Member of Parliament (MP) who is expected to defend the seat on an Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty years ago, Dagoretti MP Beth Mugo opted to support the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) presidential candidate Mwai Kibaki against his cousin Uhuru Kenyatta who was the then ruling party Kanu\u2019s flag bearer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Uhuru Kenyatta\u2019s relative, a prominent businessman and Makadara parliamentary candidate Anthony Waithaka aka Anto has joined the Deputy President Willam Ruto\u2019s United Democratic Alliance (UDA). Do Ruto receiving Anthony Waithaka to UDA. Waithaka joined UDA on the same day his uncle in law, President Uhuru Kenyatta was meeting Mount Kenya leaders at Sagana State &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12656,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652\/revisions\/12656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}