He was once thought to be a wavering watermelon (green on the outside for Yes red inside for No) and before that a supporter of the short-lived Kikuyu Kalenjin Kikuyu group along with William Ruto the Minister for Higher Education and Uhuru Kenyatta Minister of Finance (AC Vol 51 No 12)...
Both William Ruto and ex-President Daniel arap Moi whipped up local support for the No vote...
The battle between the green Yeses and the red Noes is heating up since William Ruto the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Minister of Higher Education hitched on to the coat-tails of Christian clerics and his own Rift Valley majimboists to block the Yes campaign...
While the ‘Yes’ rally in Nairobi was going on the ‘No’ campaign led by Higher Education Minister William Ruto in alliance with senior church leaders was rallying against the draft in Musyoka’s Ukambani heartland in Eastern Province...
With its slim majority in Parliament the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) had initially backed the Experts in preferring a parliamentary to a presidential system but differences developed between Prime Minister Odinga and his former ally Agriculture Minister William Ruto whose followers among the Kalenjin people had delivered to Odinga the key Rift Valley vote in the 2007 election...
Ostensibly the row was sparked by Odinga’s announcement on 14 February that he was suspending Agriculture Minister William Ruto and Education Minister Sam Ongeri for three months to facilitate investigations into corruption allegations which independent investigations have made against them...
Until now Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) stalwarts such as Raila Odinga and William Ruto have insisted that the post of Prime Minister be entrenched in the constitution...
Five of those in Naivasha – Martha Karua (National Alliance Rainbow Coalition of Kenya) Uhuru Kenyatta (PNU) William Ruto (ODM) and Raila Odinga (ODM) and Moses Wetang’ula (PNU) – want to run for president in 2012...
They include Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Uhuru Kenyatta and Agriculture Minister William Ruto...
Some suggest that Odinga may see ICC indictments as a way of dropping some of his more embarrassing political colleagues such as Kalenjin leader William Ruto whose failure to rein in the violence in the Rift Valley raised serious questions about his personal role...
The Nation a Nairobi daily reports that Uhuru Kenyatta William Ruto Franklin Bett Mutula Kilonzo John Muchiki and George Saitoti two Chief Whips George Thuo and Jakoyo Midiwo and the head of the civil service Francis Muthaura have been barred from visiting the USA...