Politicians glide thinly as the alliance shifts

Two years after the general election which saw the presidential election annulled by the court, there was no pause in local politics, with friends turning into enemies and enemies becoming allies.

No one would have thought that today, someone who was no less than Vice President William Ruto would complain about the 'excesses of the Criminal Investigation Directorate' but a few days ago their admirers baptized a close working relationship with his boss Uhuru Kenyatta as happened to the 'duo dynamic '.

Both of them recently showed their unity, even adorned a lined shirt. "We will reject and reject all efforts to weave political narratives and propaganda into projects in the name of the fight for corruption.

"Our opponents use back door tactics to undermine government projects, especially the Big Four Agenda. I want to remind them that we will go ahead with our development agenda, which will be used by voters as a scorecard in the next general election," DP Ruto recently this complained.

For a while, he pretended everything was fine. But lately, however, he has spoken openly about his frustration in government amid strong fears from his lieutenants that Central Kenya, Mr Kenyatta's backyard, slowly but steadily has turned his back on it despite making efforts to support him for the country's top jobs. . in the next poll.

The DP did not leave anything to chance, he was busy crossing the country to increase the State Building's offer in 2022.


Peace pact

But like former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once observed that a week is a long time in politics, two years later it must form a decade or maybe more.

The table has changed with most of those who made careers because of attacking the head of the Odinga Raila Opposition forced to submit.



Others are stuck with the DP while other groups remain trapped between two centers of power.

On Saturday, Mr Odinga admitted that the peace pact with the President on March 9 last year had redrawn the country's political text but quickly showed that it was getting better.

"In general, we are where some people expect us to be. The general hope is that it will be chaos, deadlock and anger until 2022; and that will make way for divisive and possibly chaotic elections.

"Some even believe that if I dig, the Uhuru government will collapse," Odinga told the Sunday Nation.

He said that digging would push the country further into the abyss and cause more suffering for everyone and might even be a claw of some of the progress that the country had made.

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Jubilee Party Secretary General Raphael Tuju was on TV last week defending Odinga against accusations that he was out to divide Jubilee. This is something he did not dare to do two years ago.

In the rare honesty of a politician who also grasps the fact that for politicians it has never been about the interests of voters, Tuju, referring to changes in political architecture, said: "I hope that no Kenyan will take the risk. his life for a politician. "

He defended his new offering with the opposition leader. "He is a friend to talk to the President, so I will be involved with him. I have no reason to criticize it now; he works with the President. We read from the same songbook, "he said.

The restoration of the Kenyatta-Odinga relationship also triggered a re-adjustment in major parties with ODM MPs to become more pro-government than some of their Jubilee partners.

Vocal supporters Mr Kenyatta in his first term such as Deputy Chairman of the Senate Kithure Kindiki must be humble, carefully studying the new order