Ruto has no revolutionary bone in his body. Raila is mercurial and has a huge axe to grind. The owners of kenya - Moi/Kenyatta - will back Ruto long before they think of Raila. Ruto is the guy they despise as lacking pedigree - and whom they only fear - for his ability to beat them in their stealing game. They don't fear Ruto.
Raila is the guy they fear.
The next phase of our politics I predict is for Mois/Kenyattas to negotiate with Ruto. The same way Daniel Moi had no problem with Kibaki winning - but would have gone to exile if Raila was PORK.
If simple Kikuyu slum shack owner fears Raila and his Luo marauding gang ( read Museveni for more of their fear) - Uhuru and the so called deep states - will diarhoea if Raila was to get near power.
But like BBI - most of you - are just for lack of better word - NAIVE. You see what they want you to see!
It like Kanu in OKOA days when Gideon and Isaac Salact were shouting NDAANI NDAANI NDAANI - almost chuckling - when they meant INJE INJE INJE.
Please read the end game. When d-day game - Gideon run to Uhuru - Uhuru run to Ruto and told him to let Gideon win in Baringo.
The same Ruto, Gideon and Uhuru were playing Raila in 2002 - Raila was in heaven as powerful KANU sec general - unaware that game was being played.
RAILA CAN ONLY GET POWER BY FORCE -like 82 and 2007 - otherwise, there is no way Mois and Kenyattas who own everything - will let Raila come to power - when a kikuyu who owns mabati structures fear Raila.
The naive fools who see Uhuru or Gideon for the fools - while these are nasty drug dealers, killers (Uhuru has murdered more than 100 mungiki to clear his name), arms dealers supplying weapons to great lakes - Mois supplied pangas that killed 1 million Rwandese and Burundis - and still do lucrative arms deals in Kenya and the region. Nasty people - who pretend to be nice - and speak nice English. Please read what Uhuru did to Citizen owner - and Madhu paper thing - on instruction from Moi.
DO NOT trust these people like naive idiot Raila and his supporters.
And they tell you they hate Ruto for stealing
and they love kenya so much they want BBI
. Ask anybody who had Moi's wealth by proxy what Gideon and Philip Moi did to those who refused to hand over.
The same way anybody who let Moi fake facade of humility and Christianity fool them - saw dust - or Mama Ngina grace.
Still waters run DEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!At this point, Ruto is where Raila was in 1997 or 1982. The system hates him and he knows it. You can whitewash his bitterness but when you listen to the clips of him speaking in Kaleo back home, it stinks to high heavens. Raila has been there, done that.