{"id":227928,"date":"2026-05-24T18:54:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=227928"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:54:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:54:43","slug":"uhuru-wanted-to-quit-politics-so-why-is-he-still-here-jubilees-kioni-has-a-surprising-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=227928","title":{"rendered":"Uhuru Wanted to Quit Politics. So Why Is He Still Here? Jubilee\u2019s Kioni Has a Surprising Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremiah Kioni, the Jubilee deputy party leader, has clarified why former President Uhuru Kenyatta maintains an active presence in the political arena despite completing his final term. During a recent interview with a local FM station on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, Kioni explained that Uhuru originally envisioned a quiet retirement as a national statesman following the 2022 transition&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nairobiwire.com\/2026\/05\/uhuru-kenyatta-politics-retirement-kioni-jubilee-party.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremiah Kioni, the Jubilee deputy party leader, has clarified why former President Uhuru Kenyatta maintains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227928-uhuru-wanted-to-quit-politics-so-why-is-he-still-here-jubilees-kioni-has-a-surprising-answer.jpg",1263,805,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227928-uhuru-wanted-to-quit-politics-so-why-is-he-still-here-jubilees-kioni-has-a-surprising-answer-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227928-uhuru-wanted-to-quit-politics-so-why-is-he-still-here-jubilees-kioni-has-a-surprising-answer-300x191.jpg",300,191,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227928-uhuru-wanted-to-quit-politics-so-why-is-he-still-here-jubilees-kioni-has-a-surprising-answer-768x490.jpg",640,408,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227928-uhuru-wanted-to-quit-politics-so-why-is-he-still-here-jubilees-kioni-has-a-surprising-answer-1024x653.jpg",640,408,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227928-uhuru-wanted-to-quit-politics-so-why-is-he-still-here-jubilees-kioni-has-a-surprising-answer.jpg",1263,805,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227928-uhuru-wanted-to-quit-politics-so-why-is-he-still-here-jubilees-kioni-has-a-surprising-answer.jpg",1263,805,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227928-uhuru-wanted-to-quit-politics-so-why-is-he-still-here-jubilees-kioni-has-a-surprising-answer-1024x653.jpg",1024,653,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227928-uhuru-wanted-to-quit-politics-so-why-is-he-still-here-jubilees-kioni-has-a-surprising-answer-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227928-uhuru-wanted-to-quit-politics-so-why-is-he-still-here-jubilees-kioni-has-a-surprising-answer-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}