The Ruto that is daily launching roads and rural mass electrification - technical colleges and water projects - is just getting started. Those are the vote winners. That is why most MPs including nearly all from GEMA are on step-lock with Ruto. When d-day come - Ruto main competitor - the 80yr old Mzee Jaramogi Raila Odinga
will be asked what have you done - and he'll say I fought corruption -an abstract concept - and Ruto will be asked the same question - and he'll respond - I built roads, rail, supplied water, electricity and colleges - Ruto will be able to name roads built in every ward of this country
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Your know how that will end! Ruto will end up in statehouse.Raila in the streets.
Running for Deputy president is not the same thing as running for President as Ruto is finding out. His 2022 game plan was to run as Ouru's twin brother and to maintain the old luo/kikuyu rivalry by casting Raila as the devil incarnate. The handshake, the economy and the war on corruption has changed everything. By the time 2020 arrives, the kikuyu vote will not beholden to Ruto, the luo/kikuyu rivalry will not be a shadow of what it used to be, but more importantly, Ruto's image as the most corrupt politician will be solidified to the point that any Kenyan randomly woken up at night and asked who is the most corrupt official will say "Ruto" without any equivocation. Showing up at Harrambees with sacks of 10 millions is realy not helpful because does more to reinforce the corruption image than the votes it wins. Ruto is so done, you can poke him with a folk.