MP Wanjiku’s empowerment, and Ruto’s rugged road towards 2022 presidential run

The newly elected Kiambaa MP John Njuguna Wanjiku [George Njunge, Standard]

The election of John Njuguna Wanjiku to represent Kiambaa for the remaining one year before the General Election has confounded many analysts. But there has been concurrence on one thing: That Wanjiku’s victory has exposed the long trek ahead for UDA’s patron, Deputy Prezzo Bill Ruto.

Why, after four years of campaigning, his candidate “only” managed a slim win with a paltry 500 votes between the UDA and Jubilee candidates. In fact, proponents of this view go on, if all the recipients of Ruto’s goodies lined up, here I am talking of church and youth groups that received stashes of cash in harambees, or barrows to start small businesses, they definitely would have surpassed the modest numbers who turned out to vote.