By NELSON NATURINDA More by this AuthorUganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has said he will not take sides in the Kenyan presidential elections scheduled for August, dispelling claims and rumours that Uganda and the ruling National Resistance Movement Party (NRM) support Deputy President William Ruto. Speaking to local media in Kampala, President Museveni said, “Elections in Kenya or any other African country are a matter of the people of that country. So, we have no side in the Kenya elections.”Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto joins Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni at a campaign rally at Kapchorwa town in eastern Uganda on December 9, 2015. AdvertisementIn 2018, Ruto was again back in Uganda at the launch of the Kapchorwa-Suam road that links to Kenya. Following talks with Museveni during one of Ruto’s visits, the rumour mill had it that the two discussed a United Africa and Ruto’s presidency.

Source: Daily Nation January 25, 2022 05:10 UTC