As soon as the five-judge bench finished pronouncing itself on the BBI Bill, he hit social media with a celebratory message. When President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga first made public their agreement to work together towards what culminated in the BBI Bill, Ruto welcomed the gesture cagily. Effectively, the Kieleweke wing of the party declared Ruto the leader of the BBI skeptics, despite his own firm avowals to the contrary. Take a surveyForecasts of the implications of the court’s dumping of BBI for Ruto’s political future, and that of UDA, invariably begin with his political behaviour around BBI. First is that Ruto did not affirmatively stand up to claim leadership of the No campaign against BBI.

Source: Standard Digital May 15, 2021 21:00 UTC