If you carefully listen to the people around H.E. President Ruto, you’ll know that he is a man under siege. When Sudi asks if they would die if they served for one term, it shows that the reality is knocking on their ears.
On the other hand, co-president Farouk Kibet giving Kimani Ichung’wa an executive order to make a law that will make Uhuru, Riggy G and Kalonzo lose their retirement benefits if they continue politics is a revelation of a regime that is fearing its own shadows.
When Sudi uses some stuff from TZ or Ethiopia, he hallucinates that if their votes will not be enough, they will fill the ballot boxes through their diaspora citizens from Mogadishu.
If you carefully listened to Charleen Ruto yesterday, she made a very strong point. She blamed the millennials for the strive that is happening between her father and Gen Z. Ms. Ruto cannot suddenly become wise. She was communicating something she was sent to. She’s asking the millennials to save him from the onslaught of the Gen Zs.
Now, here comes the game of men. Those men who have been in the room where power is grabbed and not passed on a silver platter. Raila has been there and not taken power. Uhuru has been there and managed to run with it. Ruto has been there and taken it against all odds. That room is currently hot. One person who has been in that room and taken power twice is on the lose!
Let’s talk about that room!
President Ruto wants the Jubilee Party to roar again on condition that it will be under his control. He wants one of his men in central Kenya to be the SG. H.E. Ruto feels that with MK as the SG, he will easily use Jubilee to get a few seats in Mt. Kenya.
On the other hand, there is a major challenge. President Ruto has just put 3.4B to renovate the State House. He has also put 54B in the office of the government spokesperson. It suggests that the spokesperson will be having supper with Kenyans on different days but it is not possible. That money is purely for campaigns. Kenyans don’t want handouts though!
President Ruto thus knows if the next elections will be about money, he will win by 5am on August 10th, 2027. He however knows that in the current opposition, the only person who will show him dust is Matiang’i’s popularity and acceptability with a heavy pinch of Uhuru Kenyatta’s wealth and political connections. Coupled with the Matiang’i likability among progressive people, he knows he is done.
With Uhuru in the picture and widely respected, his joining the opposition via Matiang’i is President Ruto’s political death knell!
