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In the clearest indications yet that President Uhuru Kenyatta is determined to remove the succession from his deputy William Ruto State House has moved to purge the party's leadership of Ruto allies in the Senate...

Former Bomet governor Isaac Ruto a rival to Deputy President William Ruto for Kalenjin loyalties in the Rift Valley and his Chama Cha Mashinani party have also signed a deal with Jubilee (AC Vol 58 No 23 Counting on the counties)...

Opponents predominantly from Deputy President William Ruto's faction of the ruling Jubilee party described it as un-procedural an assault on devolution and devoid of public participation a requirement under the constitution...

County governors have been targets in the Jubilee party's civil war between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto (AC Vol 61 No 6 The fight for Jubilee)...

Now their rivals mostly allied to Deputy President William Ruto are chanting 'Covid-19 Can Stop Reggae'...

Communications between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto have been close to total breakdown for some months and relations are hardly likely to be improved by threats of impeachment against Ruto...

Kenya began 2020 with erratic and intractable factional politics as the top two candidates for the next presidential election – William Ruto and Raila Odinga – counter each other's attempts to cobble together alliances from their bases in their respective ethnic homelands...

This did not sit well with Deputy President William Ruto seated on Kenyatta's right in a dark blue designer suit...

In a long off-the-cuff speech in Kikuyu Kenyatta sought to mollify his ethnic constituency about the goals of his new-found alliance with Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga the proposed constitutional changes by the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) economic conditions in the Mount Kenya region and his lukewarm relations with his deputy William Ruto (AC Vol 60 No 19 Bridge of sighs)...

The by-election campaigns for Kibra (previously Kibera) Kenya's largest slum near downtown Nairobi turned into a full-dress rehearsal of the political contest between Deputy President William Ruto and former opposition leader Raila Odinga...

The report will force Kenyatta to choose between Odinga's position on it – largely favourable – and Deputy President William Ruto's who opposes the report in its entirety...