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President will win in 2027 using same old bag of political tricks

President William Ruto hosts more than 17,000 UDA grassroots leaders from Nyeri county, who were elected as polling centre officials, at Sagana State Lodge on January 17, 2026. [PCS]

You do not have to be a gambler to bet on two things: One, that President William Ruto is on his way to winning a second term in office in 2027. And two, that Dr Ruto will win by using the same bag of tricks he deployed in the 2022 presidential election.

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