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Uhuru returns to fight for heart of Jubilee as Ruto's allies plot coup

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Jubilee Party Leader Former President Uhuru Kenyatta arrive at the Party Headquarters after a faction tried to take over on April 26th, 2023. [Samson Wire, Standard]

Shunned by political allies, on the verge of losing his political party and beleaguered by President William Ruto's Kenya Kwanza government, former President Uhuru Kenyatta is a man in unchartered waters.

Barely seven months after leaving office, his fortunes seem to be on the edge; suffering from the scaling down of his security, the woes in his Jubilee party that former close allies of about to wrestle it from him and now to Kenya revenue Authority (KRA) poking its nose in the Kenyatta family business, Uhuru appears to be destined for a rough five-year period.

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