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WHY RUTO WILL NEVER BE KENYA'S PRESIDENT



By @tweeten2013
William Samoei Ruto is a force of nature…. almost literally. The Deputy President is quietly framing himself as perhaps the most powerful and hardnosed politician in independent Kenya. His brand of politics is fresh, clever and ruthlessly effective. But Ruto is not just about politics. He is the embodiment of class struggle, a hustler and a hero who has conquered the International Criminal Court. In short he is a god, adored by a legion of followers who will squash anything in his way at the snap of a finger.  William Ruto is poised to make it big. I mean real big. He is vocal, funny, rich, and furiously determined. When it comes to garnering voters, he’s in a league of his own. This man single-handedly made Uhuru Kenyatta president. Now he wants to make himself one. Who can stop him?
Who? I know what you’re thinking. “Ruto is the Deputy President. He has only one forward step to make. It couldn’t be easier”. Well, the world doesn’t really work that way. It’s not a fairy tale we are talking about here. We are talking about the will of an entire nation. Kenyan politics is still deeply tribal. We are talking millions of votes scattered around several tribal blocks that have powerful so-called tribal chiefs. Unfortunately for Ruto none of these tribal chief likes him so much. We are talking Musalia Mudavadi, Ali Hassan Joho, Kalonzo Musyoka, Raila Odinga, Harun Mwau, Daniel Moi and Simeon Nyachae to name but a few. To make matters worse, Ruto has trouble in his own backyard. The likes of Nick Salat, Gedion Moi and Rutto are evidently drifting towards NASA.
The second reason is: Ruto banks on the Central Kenya Block of voters who are unscrupulously unpredictable. Already we are hearing the likes of Munya warning Ruto that he’ll have to ‘convince’ the Gikuyu nation of his suitability for the presidency. He’ll have to campaign in the region just like everyone else. That is, Ruto has no advantage. What he was trying to tell Ruto is that Ruto is not and will not be their de facto presidential candidate. He will have to fight it out with the likes of Peter Keneth, Martha Karua and the likes. That’s like asking Najib Balala to compete Raila Odinga in Luoland. There is only one winner.
Third Reason? He’ll inherit the failures of the Jubilee administration. Well, all regimes have their failures and so does the Jubilee Regime. Already there’s talk of Jubilee being the most corrupt administration in Kenyan history. This is a record they surely would not want to hold. But they do. And coming from Githongo whose word many Kenyans highly regard, it could be the last straw that broke the camel’s back. But the failures of Jubilee don’t stop there. As we speak,  many innocent Kenyan soldiers are dying in Somalia every day, the economy isn’t doing so great and the most crucial sectors in Health and Education are crippled with never ending industrial action, one after another. Many companies are closing shop in Kenya and the unemployment rates are climbing. People are dying of drought and famine yet millions if not billions of shillings was put aside for that very purpose. With these facts fresh in people’s mind, how will Ruto claim to able to lead the nation?
The forth reason is “the king maker hardly ever becomes the king himself”. It goes without saying that Ruto single-handedly made Uhuru Kenyatta the forth President of Kenya. Without his backing Kenyatta is nothing. But history is full of this kind of narrative. The king maker never becomes the King. In Kenya it all started with Jaramogi Oginga Odinga who refused to form the first independent government if Kenyatta was still in prison. Raila Odinga repeated the folly in 2002. Kalonzo did the same in 2008 when he joined the Kibaki administration after the disputed elections of 2007. The common denominator is that all these names never came close to becoming the president themselves ever since.
Last and equally least, Ruto is not just good-looking enough. I mean, he doesn’t have the face. Most Kenyan presidents, former and current, have been people with looks and charisma – people who evoke a sense of admiration and adoration in the populace. Ruto particularly doesn’t fit that mould. He has an ugly squint, stout frame and a not-so-gorgeous smile. I don’t think Ruto has the face that most Kenyan’s wish to represent them in the international scene. And there’s this interesting fact: majority of the most successful leaders in the world have been handsome men. King David of Israel, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George Bush of USA, Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, Nelson Mandela… to name but very few. On the flip side, most of the worst dictators in world politics have been ugly looking people: Idi Amin of Uganda, Sadam Hussein, Adolf Hitler, and Robert Mugabe.

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