This paper carried a headline last week opening the lid on the then impending visit by Kikuyu elders to Raila Odinga’s Bondo home. My first thought on this subheadline was that the Uhuru inner circle was being disrespectful to Raila by narrowing down the presidency to 'stopping Ruto'. Of all Kenyan problems the next president needs to solve, I just can’t see how stopping Ruto would be the biggest theme of Uhuru Kenyatta’s strategists. If they opt to support Raila for president, they would find that there are millions of reasons to pick him, and stopping Ruto isn’t even atop the card deck. Well, they can throw stopping Ruto in there if they deem fit, but the new dawn will come because the country trusts Raila enough to place this next delicate phase in his able hands.

Source: The Star October 18, 2020 04:07 UTC