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Why William Ruto will likely lose election, then emerge winner in run-off

President William Ruto presides over the disbursement of Sh147 million Nyota business start-up capital to 5,880 young entrepreneurs from Mombasa, Kwale and Taita Taveta counties at Jomo Kenyatta showground in Mombasa. [PCS]

Allow me to plead temporary insanity and state that President William Ruto is ready to lose the 2027 election in round one. I’ll even go further to state that his recent vaunting of a first-round win by two million votes is a clever decoy. The real plan is a run-off election and subsequent assumption of office on Tuesday, November 30, 2027, 10:01 am.

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