Make or break for Uhuru, Ruto as voters head to polls in Kiambaa

IEBC clerks prepare paperwork at Karuri High School ahead of the Kiambaa parliamentary elections. [George Njunge, Standard]

Today, it is a do or die political duel for President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto as residents of Kiambaa constituency and Muguga ward hit the ballot box in by-elections that could direct Mount Kenya politics ahead of next year's elections.

The high states mini-polls are beyond the local candidates, in what has been billed as a battle for supremacy between Uhuru and Ruto, once strong political buddies, turned rivals amid the 2022 succession politics.