Has Uhuru been Tamed and living in Isolation?

As Kenyans took to social media over the weekend to speculate over the whereabouts of a “missing” President Uhuru Kenyatta, State House spokesperson Kanze Dena came out to claim the Head of State has been in the office and working.

But pundits speak of a President Kenyatta who looks isolated from the very politicians, mainly from Mt Kenya, who formed the bedrock of his electoral machine.

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Keiyo South MP Daniel Rono claims President Kenyatta’s powers have been curtailed tremendously by the handshake between him and opposition leader Raila Odinga. “It seems Uhuru donated some of his powers to Raila. The presidency has been weakened but they are trying to fulfill their pledges,” said Mr Rono

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With clear divisions emerging within the Jubilee Party, President Kenyatta has been lucky to have the Opposition MPs behind him following the March 9, 2018 “handshake” that ended the political acrimony between the two while, paradoxically, dividing Jubilee. Uhuru has been left at the mercy of some few opposition MPs.

Although he has said he supports the handshake, Deputy President William Ruto has consistently been critical of Mr. Odinga and also defied President Kenyatta’s call for a halt to political campaigns for the sake of development and unity.

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While Mr. Ruto’s team would hardly admit that his activities —church fund-drives, meet-the-people tours and hosting of delegations at his official residence — amount to political campaigning-the activities are often wrought with Ruto 2022 rhetorics.

Another headache for the President is the loss of support from Mt Kenya leaders and their constituents to Mr. Ruto, who has focused on building loyalty and followers in the region.

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The DP has been priming himself to take over from President Kenyatta in 2022 and has been relying on most of the elected leaders in the populous region to back his presidency. State House insiders say that the last thing Mr. Kenyatta wants is to be a lame-duck President.

If opposition Chief Raila Odinga today decides to seal Uhuru’s fate, his mission will be successful because, at the moment, the head of state has nothing to cling on. His fate and destiny are presumably under ODM leader Raila Odinga.

With only nominated MP Maina Kamanda and Nyeri Town MP Ngunjiri Wambugu on his side, the political register for President Kenyatta in Mt Kenya region is full of individuals who lost in the last general elections and who blame Mr. Ruto for their loss.

The President is currently torn between a disappointed electorate that wants him to actualize the war on corruption and in-fighting within his Jubilee Party. The pro-Ruto faction, dubbed Tanga-Tanga, views the government’s anti-corruption drive as an assault on the DP and his allies.

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Soy MP Caleb Kositany says the President can salvage the situation by convening an urgent Jubilee parliamentary group meeting to iron out issues in the party.

“We don’t know what happened after the handshake. We had very humble Uhuru but today we have a very temperamental President,” said Mr Kositany. The argument has been that, if not careful, Mr Kenyatta may lose his political gravitas just as former president Mwai Kibaki and his Party of National Unity (PNU) became a shell before the end of his rule.

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This reality has been worsened by the fact that leaders from his Central Kenya backyard have registered new political outfits or revived and refurbished old ones.

Mr Kamanda, who is a key member of the Jubilee faction that is allied to the President, Kieleweke, says a number of leaders from Mt Kenya region had been “bought” to fight the Head of State.

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“Even former President (Daniel) Moi was respected up to the end even after his candidate lost the 2002 elections. Nyeri people and most of Central Kenya also stuck with Kibaki. It is shocking that Kiambu people are now the ones leading the revolt against Uhuru,” Mr Kamanda said.

Although the President can count of the backing in Parliament of Mr Odinga’s supporters, the rebellion within jubilee is proving to be a nightmare.

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