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William Ruto: President Uhuru fooled 10 million Kenyans by backing Raila

by Enock Ndayala

Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition party presidential candidate Raila Odinga will be facing off with Deputy President William Ruto in the August 9 presidential election.

President Uhuru Kenyatta who co-formed the Jubilee government with William Ruto will not be defending his seat after serving his two-term constitutional limits.

When he was elected President of Kenya in the 2013 and 2017 elections, Uhuru’s political bosom buddy was William Ruto, and was expected that the first in command would support him for the country’s top seat in the 2022 polls.

Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition party presidential candidate Raila Odinga will be facing off with Deputy President William Ruto in the August 9 presidential election.
Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition party presidential candidate Raila Odinga will be facing off with Deputy President William Ruto in the August 9 presidential election. Photo: William Ruto/Twitter

However, the outgoing president whipped up political hotheads to rise up against his former political ally turned foe going by the way he endorsed former rival, Raila Odinga.

Speaking in Eldoret town on Monday, August 1, Deputy President William Ruto criticized President Uhuru Kenyatta for endorsing Raila Odinga’s State House bid in the August 9, General Election.

The UDA presidential candidate said the Head of State has fooled the more than 10 million Kenyans who voted for the Jubilee administration in the 2013 and 2017 presidential elections.

“Yaani sisi watu million 10 tumesimama na wewe 2013, 2017 tumeunda serikali… umetupima sisi wote ukaona hatutoshi mpaka unaenda kukodisha mtu ya kitendawili? hapana hiyo haiwezekani,” Ruto

Loosely translated to “We, 10 million people, have stood with you in 2013, 2017, we have formed a government… then you have measured all of us and found that we are not enough until you go to hire that man of riddles? No that’s impossible.”

Ruto, who is giving his first attempt at the presidency further, faulted president Uhuru for coercing people to support his handshake partner Raila Odinga.

He said there were individuals supplying leaflets from the office of the president asking civil servants to vote for Raila terming the move as ‘evil.’

“Those who are sponsoring evil, those who are sponsoring pamphlets, we know you,” Ruto said.

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