Will Uhuru reap personal benefits like Raila after Ichaweri meeting with Ruto?

President William Ruto pays a courtesy call to Former President Uhuru Kenyatta at his Gatundu Home on December 09, 2024. The two leaders discussed issues of National interest. [PCS,Standard]

Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto met at Uhuru's Ichaweri home cum emerging headquarters, eliciting much curiosity. It surprised those incapable of reading signs on the political wall. Although it was less predictable than the Ruto-Raila deal early in 2024 or the Uhuru-Raila mutual embracement in 2018, it still was clear that the political interests of the two men would force them to gravitate towards each other. They had worked together before.

Both men, as well Godfrey Rigathi Gachagua, were apprentices in Moi's Kanu politics in the 1990s which emphasised the tendency to hoard power. Gachagua, an efficient anti-multiparty District Officer, DO, also acted as an aide to Uhuru. The DO in Gachagua never left him even after he switched to politics. Ruto's debut in politics was through YK '92 operations and dethroning Reuben Chesire in Eldoret in the 1997 elections.