Dishored Clip wrongly claims Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta announces new bid for presidency

Former Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta retired in 2022 after two terms. As the country prepares for the 2027 election, Tiktok claims Kenyatta announced he will run for president again. But the claim is wrong; the audio used is AI-generated, and the video begins in 2022, when the former leader spoke to the nation after the Supreme Court upheld its successor’s victory.

“What’s wrong with Uhuru? What did you decide?” Read Swahili text overlay in tiktok video publishing March 18, 2025.

The clip has been shared over 2,000 times, indicating that Kenyatta made a speech from behind the presidential seal’s speech.

Kenyatta said: “Kenyans, Kenyans, in 2027, I will fight for the president. I have decided to go all out to go back to politics. Goodwill, I want to ask you to vote when the time comes,” Kenyatta seemed to say.

Politics in 2027

Kenyatta retire After leading the country in 2013-2022, it reached two sessions constitution Restricted individuals to serve as president (released here and here).

He ruled with the current William Ruto, but their relationship Sour taste Before the end of the second semester (Archive here).

In the process of the 2022 election Acknowledgement Opposition leader Raila Odinga lost to Ruto (archived here).

Kenyatta, who is still in conflict with Ruto, has not publicly announced his preferred candidate as the country prepares for the 2027 election. However, his Jubilee Party has supported Former Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i (Archived here).

Ruto is Decide Keep his seat and serve as the second term of Kenyan leader (archive here).

However, the videotape that Kenyatta allegedly announced his intention to run for president again was tampered with.

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AFP fact checks were conducted Reverse image search On the keychain of the clip, the original shot was found publishing Kenyan media NTV on September 5, 2022 (Archived here).

The video’s title reads: “After the Supreme Court’s judgment, President Uhuru Kenyatta’s speech.”

At the time, Kenyatta expressed his views on the election process and the Supreme Court’s ruling on Ruto’s defeat of Odinga. He vowed to make a smooth transition.

In both videos, Kenyatta can be seen standing behind the same podium, wearing a navy blue shirt with a flag in the backstage.

In the segment of the original video used in the Tiktok clip, Kenyatta actually said: “Kenians, Kenyans, on August 9, 2022, Kenyans participated in an election that attracted new leaders at all levels in the field of government.”

He has not talked about running for office in 2027.

AFP fact checks used Invid-Weverify’s audio detection tool to analyze audio from Tiktok clips. The results show strong evidence for speech cloning.

We have not found a credible report by Kenyatta’s intention to declare his intention to fight for the president in 2027.