Anger should not inform our pick in Tuesday's poll

Stephen Jackson, Vimal Shah and Chacha Nyaigoti verify security features on ballot boxes. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

The Azimio versus Kenya Kwanza verbal tussles instead of articulating issues have become increasingly unsettling. Remarks by Deputy President William Ruto asking President Uhuru Kenyatta not to kill his children are in bad taste and should not be taken lightly.

The safety of every Kenyan should not be put into jeopardy. But again, could they be just rumblings of a man under siege? Ever since his underwhelming one-man presidential debate, Ruto has been swinging the bat. Given that he has been trailing in opinion polls, I guess this has been his way of getting back on track.