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Why the one term threat against Ruto is just but a sore loser's pipe dream

President William Ruto inspects section 1 of the 257 km Lamu-Ijara-Garissa road (LAPSSET corridor) with the road set to connect with Isiolo and eventually reach Ethiopia on February 07, 2025. [PCS, Standard]

We have not, in this country, had a presidential era where succession politics has reared its head as early as it has this season.

President William Ruto, Kenya's fifth president has done slightly more than two years. He has not exactly counted his half-term. The half date will come on March 13. Yet the political arena has grown hot political talk that is laced with near -ethnic epithets.

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