Sometime in September last year, a bullish President William Ruto shared his dream to have his United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party last a century.

It was the same plan that former President Uhuru Kenyatta had for the Jubilee Party, of which Ruto was a co-founder, before disintegrating after his handshake with former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

As he had stressed countless times before, Ruto asserted that UDA would not follow the path of his former party. If anything, it would grow stronger.