{"id":48,"date":"2010-07-19T15:40:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T15:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/_test_&#038;web\/?p=48"},"modified":"2018-09-21T11:35:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T11:35:17","slug":"paul-kagame-endorsed-as-rpf-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame endorsed as RPF candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kigali 15 May 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of delegates of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF-Inkotanyi) from across the country convened in Kigali at the Amahoro National Stadium in an extra-ordinary congress on May 15, 2010 to elect their party flag-bearer for the forthcoming Presidential elections scheduled for August 9th.<br \/>\nAfter the RPF Secretary General Ngarambe announced that all the other contenders had withdrawn their candidature in writing, the supporters enthusiastically elected by acclamation Paul Kagame, the party chairman, as the party\u2019s presidential contestant in the August elections.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Kagame\u2019s endorsement followed his overwhelming recent victories in the party\u2019s primaries, after competing with other party members, like Justus Kangwage in the Northern province, Charles Muligande in the Eastern province, and Josee Kagabo in Kigali municipality.<br \/>\nBesides the party members, the nomination ceremony was attended by representatives of the South Africa\u2019s ruling party The RPF\u2019s delegates\u2019 congress attracted foreign dignitaries who included Burundi\u2019s CNDD President, Jean Jacques Nyirimigabo and South Africa\u2019s ANC Vice-President Patrick Herman.<br \/>\nSpeaking after a thunderous applause in affirmation of his candidature, President Kagame, who will be running for a second seven-year term, thanked party members for the trust they still had in his leadership.<br \/>\n\u201cLeaders change but party manifestos and plans never change, I believe the RPF has other people capable of leading the country in line with the party s plans,\u201d Kagame said, noting that he was confident that the RPF will win the election not by guessing but by building on what has happened in the country.<br \/>\n\u201cThere is no president who has contributed to this country\u2019s development like Kagame has, no one has won awards and medals like him. He has helped the poor get cows and women have a say. I don t think there is any other who can fit in his position,\u201d said Domitilla Mukakarara, a resident of the Southern province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kigali 15 May 2010 Thousands of delegates of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF-Inkotanyi) from across the country convened in Kigali at the Amahoro National Stadium in an extra-ordinary congress on May 15, 2010 to elect their party flag-bearer for the forthcoming Presidential elections scheduled for August 9th. After the RPF Secretary General Ngarambe announced that all the other contenders had withdrawn their candidature in writing, the supporters enthusiastically elected by acclamation Paul Kagame, the party chairman, as the party\u2019s presidential&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13494,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/13494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}