Uhuru shouldn’t buy time if his scheme is to divorce his deputy

Since they came together in 2012, Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto acted like brothers from different mothers. Until 2018. Precisely March 9, 2018, when the Raila Odinga-Uhuru Kenyatta handshake happened like a jolt from the blue.

The rapprochement between Kenyatta and Ruto was also unexpected given their respective political positions from 2006. They had worked together in Kanu from the 1990s but were not seen as especially close, though Ruto campaigned for Kenyatta in 2002 in his first unsuccessful stab at the presidency.