Surprising reason Why Ruto might lose 2017 elections

Jubilee’s celebrations on winning Kericho County’s senatorial seat was curiously muted in sharp contrast to the vigorous campaign that saw choppers, millions of shillings, music and I kid you not, satirical poems deployed. What had been envisaged as an easy win by the Deputy President after appointing Charles Keter, Kericho’s erstwhile Senator, as Cabinet Secretary turned out to be a rather close affair threatening the very position of William Samoei Ruto as Rift Valley’s premier leader.

So exactly what happened? Are Kericho’s residents just an ungrateful lot or is their disillusionment with the ruling coalition valid? Well, the main reason that got the people of this picturesque county so irate is the numerous unmet promises which still stand so barely a year to the next election. Ruto was at great pains to explain the apparent neglect of the region. He even asked for forgiveness and made even more promises of fulfilling his initial promises. Naturally, he earned a new nickname on the campaign trail popularized by KANU with many referring to him as   ‘Tumetenga’. Named so for his propensity of saying that the government had allocated millions to projects in the region, millions the residents of Kericho had never seen.