{"id":12830,"date":"2022-03-12T05:05:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T05:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=12830"},"modified":"2022-03-12T05:07:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T05:07:40","slug":"sonko-ditches-jubilee-party-for-uda-as-he-announces-a-political-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=12830","title":{"rendered":"Sonko ditches Jubilee party for UDA as he announces a political comeback."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has set the stage for the August 9 general elections political re-alignments by quiting the ruling Jubilee Party for the Deputy President (DP) William Ruto&#8217;s United Democratic Alliance (UDA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sonko who was elected as Nairobi&#8217;s Governor in the 2017 general on a Jubilee ticket resigned officially from the party on March 10th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sonko is expected to join UDA together with the Deputy President on Saturday, March 12th, 2022 when they will both officially defect from Jubilee to UDA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter dated March 10th, addressed to the Jubilee headquarters, Sonko informed the party that he had resigned as it&#8217;s member with immediate effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;<strong><em>Please accept this letter as my formal notice of resignation as a member of Jubilee party effective  March 10th, 2021,&#8221; said Sonko<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Sonko thanked Jubilee for the support that they had accorded him during his tenure as the governor of Nairobi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has set the stage for the August 9 general elections political re-alignments by quiting the ruling Jubilee Party for the Deputy President (DP) William Ruto&#8217;s United Democratic Alliance (UDA). Sonko who was elected as Nairobi&#8217;s Governor in the 2017 general on a Jubilee ticket resigned officially from the party on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12830","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\/12830","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=12830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12831,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830\/revisions\/12831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}