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President Uhuru Kenyatta is planning to engage Kenyans in a major televised town hall meeting to wrap up his campaigns, the Star has established.

In the week under analysis, from July 21- 27, two in five of the tweets related to the election were sent on July 24, the day the presidential debate was held.

President Uhuru Kenyatta made a prudent decision to skip the televised presidential debate on Monday, it is now emerging.

Kenyans online were enquiring from Google on the whereabouts of President Uhuru Kenyatta after he snubbed this year's debate.

Two of the three presidential aspirants, incumbent President Paul Kagame and main opposition candidate Frank Habineza have pulled out of Rwanda’s first presidential debate to be aired live on Wednesday.

According to Geopoll which tracks media consumption, at least 9.6 million Kenyans watched the NASA presidential candidate on their TV sets

President Kenyatta has no regrets for not attending the presidential debate that took place on 24 July 2017. Even after Kenyans took to social media and criticized the president for not attending the debate Uhuru, said that the debate was a waste of time.

President Kenyatta has no regrets for not attending the presidential debate that took place on 24 July 2017. Even after Kenyans took to social media and criticized the president for not attending the debate Uhuru, said that the debate was a waste of time.

Kenyans are very angry after President Uhuru said that the presidential debate was a waste of time. Some of the Kenyans took to social media to express their disappointment in president Kenyatta.

President Uhuru Kenyatta skipped the much-awaited Presidential Debate even as his main rival used the opportunity to sell his candidature in a live televised debate.

Kenyan opposition presidential candidate Raila Odinga on Monday fielded questions alone on stage after his rival, President Uhuru Kenyatta, failed to show up for a debate between the two.

Kenyans onTtwitter camped online to giveg their opinions on President Kenyatta’s absence.