Ruto dismisses alliances saying they are outdated strategies to avoid defeat

Deputy President William Ruto today said the ongoing formulation of political alliances are aimed at scuttling his bid to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta in next year's election. Speaking at his Karen residence, the deputy president said Kenyans will be the ultimate loser, should they ignore his hustler narrative and bottom-up economic model. But as Francis Gachuri reports, Ruto’s continued dismissal of coalitions as assemblies of ethnic chiefs and insistence on direct access to the voters, through the united democratic alliance (UDA); appears to rub a section of political leaders the wrong way.

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