That kind of criticism has encouraged Deputy President William Ruto increasingly marginalised by Kenyatta's allies in the governing Jubilee party to make a concerted bid for the Luo Luhya and Coastal communities all of which feel that they have been neglected by successive governments in Nairobi...
Like most Kalenjin the two politicians resent of the President's treatment of his Deputy William Ruto (a Kalenjin) now practically excluded from all aspects of government by a squad of the President's closest advisers led by Jubilee Party deputy chairman David Murathe in alliance with Raila Odinga's key men in the Orange Democratic Movement...
After President Kenyatta purged loyalists to Deputy President William Ruto he brought in a new cadre of allies in charge of the ruling Jubilee party's parliamentary affairs (AC Vol 61 No 12 Uhuru takes it out on his party)...
Their frustration with the government's economic mismanagement the President's embrace of Raila Odinga (having earlier demonised him) and the Kenyatta family's monopolistic business tactics had sent the traders and farmers into William Ruto's camp...
Having fallen out with Nasa leader Raila Odinga during the fluid aftermath of the January 2018 faux swearing-in which he failed to attend and despite some flirtations unable to reconcile himself either to the factions of Kenyatta or Deputy President William Ruto in the ruling party Mudavadi has found himself in retreat from national politics and therefore increasingly locked inside Western Kenya's fractious leadership contests...
The parliamentarians were therefore expecting a lengthy list of tasks on their role in realising that legacy which might even include reconciliation between the President and his deputy William Ruto...
In the clearest indications yet that President Uhuru Kenyatta is determined to remove the succession from his deputy William Ruto State House has moved to purge the party's leadership of Ruto allies in the Senate...
Former Bomet governor Isaac Ruto a rival to Deputy President William Ruto for Kalenjin loyalties in the Rift Valley and his Chama Cha Mashinani party have also signed a deal with Jubilee (AC Vol 58 No 23 Counting on the counties)...
Opponents predominantly from Deputy President William Ruto's faction of the ruling Jubilee party described it as un-procedural an assault on devolution and devoid of public participation a requirement under the constitution...
County governors have been targets in the Jubilee party's civil war between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto (AC Vol 61 No 6 The fight for Jubilee)...
Vol 61 No 7 |
- KENYA
- COVID-19
Now their rivals mostly allied to Deputy President William Ruto are chanting 'Covid-19 Can Stop Reggae'...
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Communications between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto have been close to total breakdown for some months and relations are hardly likely to be improved by threats of impeachment against Ruto...
