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Where it all went wrong for the Jubilee juggernaut

President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto. [David Gichuru/Standard]

Deputy President William Ruto walked into Jubilee House, the glass edifice at Pangani area built at the end of a cemetery, to engage in lofty party discussion but ended up whiling his time at the kitchen with the rank and file of the political outfit.

Days later, he stormed the building with a group of loyalists and declared that he would henceforth pitch camp there in a final act of defiance that has set him up for disciplinary action in a party he once declared a prototype for other political entities.

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