DP defies Uhuru, meets candidate in Kwale poll

Deputy President William Ruto addresses the media when he drove to the party headquarters in Nairobi on September 23, 2020, to push to have a candidate for Msambweni by-election which was occasioned by the death of MP Suleiman Dori. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Deputy President William Ruto’s plan for a political face-off with ODM leader Raila Odinga in the Msambweni by-election — through a Jubilee candidate — was shattered in a 30-minute phone call.