Ruto is not looking for strong deputy - because he wants to run gov - not as coalition - but as individual.
Kindiki perfect fits the bill. They differed with RiggyG because he wanted to become Ruto co-equal. Which Ruto found ridicolously because he picked him.
With death of Raila - Ruto has big growth area in former ODM Zones - right from Luo Nyanza, Western, KAMATUSA, NEP and Coast.
Rebuilding the KANU coalition of Pre-2002 will mean Ruto start at 40% before negotiation.
Anyone who can bring 10% - Kindiki can if he get Merus & Embus or Joho - will be.
And they will be coming mostly as appendages. Not 50-50.
Ruto wil be eating gov contracts vila anataka.
Big G is working to bleed the government machinery to the last minute. Have never understood how the gamble of telling residents to eat from govt hotel while spending nothing works. But it does most of the times.
Being one of the remote places in Mt Kenya, you see Ruto's miscalculations. Despised Tharaka Kindiki gotta work with no traction even in Mbeere.