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Kenya’s Deputy President WilliamRuto is making his first stab at the presidency, however, he is not a newcomer to Kenya’s politics.

Kenya's Deputy President and presidential candidate William Ruto attends an election rally in Eldoret, Kenya August 1, 2022.Kenya's Deputy President and presidential candidate William Ruto attends an election rally in Eldoret, Kenya August 1, 2022.

Then in the following elections in 1997, he vied and won a parliamentary seat in his Eldoret home town….in 2002, he supported Uhuru Kenyatta’s bid for the presidency but Kenyatta lost to Mwai Kibaki. that gave birth to a political marriage of convenience between Ruto and Kenyatta, which saw Kenyatta elected president in 2013 and 2017.

“William Ruto is a hardworking Kenyan, he’s an extremely Brilliant Kenyan and I think he is brainy,” says Prof. Naituli.

 

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