President Uhuru Kenyatta has been smarting from the Jubilee party’s loss in the Juja and Bonchari parliamentary by?elections, barely days after the collapse of the Building Bridges Initiative at the High Court. This and a series of other court losses have triggered a debate on whether Kenyatta’s rule could be sliding into a lame-duck presidency, heading into the final months of his term. So is Uhuru Kenyatta becoming a lame-duck president, as alleged? And how did his predecessors handle similar challenges during their transitional phases?