{"id":3702,"date":"2025-07-14T11:02:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:02:56","slug":"kindiki-to-critics-no-shortcuts-to-power-wait-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/kindiki-to-critics-no-shortcuts-to-power-wait-for-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindiki to Critics: No Shortcuts to Power, Wait for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"415\">By Victor Ouma<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"415\">Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has cautioned political critics and opponents of the Kenya Kwanza administration against seeking alternative means to power, urging them to wait for the 2027 General Election.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"417\" data-end=\"671\">Speaking during the Economic Empowerment for Women Forum at Kipkeikei in Cherang\u2019any Constituency, Trans Nzoia County, Kindiki warned that the government will not tolerate attempts to destabilize the country under the guise of political freedoms.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"673\" data-end=\"1036\">\n<p data-start=\"675\" data-end=\"1036\">\u201cIf you want to challenge us, wait for the elections,\u201d he said.<br data-start=\"738\" data-end=\"741\" \/>\u201cThose looking for shortcuts to power should know this country cannot be allowed to degenerate like some of our neighbors. President Ruto and this administration will not permit chaos and anarchy in the name of liberties or shortcuts by power-hungry politicians who are too impatient to wait.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"675\" data-end=\"1036\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.standardmedia.co.ke\/images\/wysiwyg\/images\/HGTAMnKkjdCFWEBfa1BPz2V7sDiy1tGewlcSMTTG.jpg\" width=\"914\" height=\"571\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1038\" data-end=\"1243\">Kindiki welcomed the High Court\u2019s dismissal of a petition challenging the appointment of the new IEBC commissioners, and urged the commission to begin preparations for the 2027 elections without delay.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"1245\" data-end=\"1453\">\n<p data-start=\"1247\" data-end=\"1453\">\u201cThe court case had put us in a difficult position. Now that the commission is fully constituted, it should begin preparations for the 2027 elections. This will help us underwrite our democracy,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1455\" data-end=\"1660\">He further stressed the importance of upholding and respecting independent institutions like the Judiciary and IEBC, reiterating that leadership should only be pursued through constitutional means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Victor Ouma Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has cautioned political critics and opponents of the Kenya Kwanza administration against seeking&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/HGTAMnKkjdCFWEBfa1BPz2V7sDiy1tGewlcSMTTG.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3705,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions\/3705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}