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The political drama sparked by a fake letter claiming that several cabinet ministers from President Uhuru Kenyatta's Mount Kenya homeland had been plotting to kill Deputy President William Ruto provides yet more evidence of the fragility and fractiousness of his government...

This is a criticism the President has often levelled at the faction of his Jubilee Party that supports Deputy President William Ruto for president in the 2022 elections...

Deputy President William Ruto absented himself from the events (AC Vol 60 No 2 Three's a crowd)...

Some of his core constituents – prominent Kikuyu legislators and those who voted for them and his deputy William Samoei Ruto and the Kalenjin – think the reconciliation with Odinga and the Luo community and the resources thrown at it has been at their expense...

Kenya's political landscape in 2019 will be dominated by two-way competition between Deputy President William Ruto of the ruling Jubilee Party and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) as each man positions himself for the presidential election of 2022...

Campaigners politicians and plotters have started the year with a flurry of activity: protests about electoral shenanigans in Congo-Kinshasa; demonstrations demanding the exit of Sudan's President Omer Hassan el Beshir; the governing Jubilee party in Kenya has started to splinter after top officials quit in protest at Vice-President William Ruto's plans to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta; and security forces killed two soldiers and arrested seven more after a failed putsch in Gabon...

Pointing to the multiple privileges and trappings of wealth that Kenyatta himself and his deputy William Ruto enjoy the MPs have vowed to disregard him and override his veto of the bill with a two-thirds majority...

But Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto have also been consummate spenders promising new roads to somewhere every month a laptop to every schoolchild (even in villages without electricity) free maternity care (even for those who can afford to pay for it) and cash handouts to the elderly regardless of income...

Deputy President William Samoei Ruto is no exception...

So much so that the ruling Jubilee Alliance could split over it — with one faction loyal to Kenyatta and the other to his deputy William Ruto...

In 1997 Odinga abandoned the robust pro-democracy opposition to join the Kenya African National Union (KANU) the political organ of President Daniel arap Moi's rule becoming its secretary general in 2002 supplanting the young William Ruto from the secretary general's seat – over which he has held a burning grudge ever since we are told...

Every politician in Nairobi has a favourite theory about the causes and consequences of the rapprochement between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga on 9 March and what it means for Deputy President William Ruto...