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Ruto, Raila love-hate relations and its influence on Nyanza politics

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President William Ruto when he met with ODM Party leader Raila Odinga during the burial of Mzee Abel Gongera in Kisii Coungty. [File, Standard]

The love-hate relationship between ODM leader and President William Ruto has entered a new phase, despite their differences over the 2022 presidential polls.

Raila summoned MPs from his party for a meeting in Nairobi this week and ordered them to attend all functions the President will convene in his Nyanza backyard this week. The two political big wigs are no strangers to each other having worked together when they formed the ODM in 2007, the party on which Raila lost to president Mwai Kibaki in controversial circumstances.

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