{"id":70291,"date":"2022-08-15T18:33:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T17:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/kenya-election-vp-william-ruto-defeats-president-odinga"},"modified":"2022-08-15T19:50:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T18:50:19","slug":"kenya-election-vp-william-ruto-defeats-president-odinga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kenya-election-vp-william-ruto-defeats-president-odinga","title":{"rendered":"Kenya election: VP, William Ruto defeats President Odinga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Deputy President of Kenya, William Ruto has been declared winner of the country\u2019s close-fought presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Some commissioners had rejected the results of the just concluded election.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the country\u2019s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, Wafula Chebukati made the declaration on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Ruto had won almost 7.18 million votes (50.49 percent) against 6.94 million (48.85 percent) for his rival Raila Odinga in the August 9 vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Deputy President of Kenya, William Ruto has been declared winner of the country\u2019s close-fought presidential election. Some commissioners had rejected the results of the just concluded election. Chairman of the country\u2019s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, Wafula Chebukati made the declaration on Monday. According to him, Ruto had won almost 7.18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":70290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1578,8323,254,8322,8324],"class_list":["post-70291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-breaking","tag-kenya-election","tag-nigeria","tag-odinga","tag-william-ruto"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenya election: VP, William Ruto defeats President Odinga - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Deputy President of Kenya, William Ruto has been declared winner of the country\u2019s close-fought presidential election ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kenya-election-vp-william-ruto-defeats-president-odinga\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kenya election: VP, William Ruto defeats President Odinga\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Deputy President of Kenya, William Ruto has been declared winner of the country\u2019s close-fought presidential election ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kenya-election-vp-william-ruto-defeats-president-odinga\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-15T17:33:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-15T18:50:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_16-62fa954f7a1ed.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1556\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"888\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kenya-election-vp-william-ruto-defeats-president-odinga#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kenya-election-vp-william-ruto-defeats-president-odinga\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kenya election: VP, William Ruto defeats President Odinga\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-15T17:33:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-15T18:50:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kenya-election-vp-william-ruto-defeats-president-odinga\"},\"wordCount\":88,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kenya-election-vp-william-ruto-defeats-president-odinga#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_16-62fa954f7a1ed.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"breaking\",\"Kenya election\",\"Nigeria\",\"Odinga\",\"William Ruto\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kenya-election-vp-william-ruto-defeats-president-odinga#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kenya-election-vp-william-ruto-defeats-president-odinga\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kenya-election-vp-william-ruto-defeats-president-odinga\",\"name\":\"Kenya election: VP, William Ruto defeats President Odinga - 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