As things get tough for embattled DP William Ruto, the man is now carefully planning his next course of action. We both know that Ruto is an industrious person with a solution for every problem.
After all, this is a man who ensured Harambee Stars qualify for AFCON after promising them KSH. 50 million. And now the DP knows that 2022 will be a tough race.
He also understands that he may not win the elections. It is for this reason that he wants to be given a job as the official opposition leader if he loses the presidential race.
But this position does not exist! Ruto has had to lower his stance about the referendum as long as the position is created.
He said the current formulation undermines executive accountability and saddled “our democracy with a headless, incoherent and dysfunctional opposition.”
We need a functional, constitutional official opposition so that the runner-up in an election does not become a stranger in leadership. #CHafrica pic.twitter.com/CIsuJ5Vj4u
— William Samoei Ruto, PhD (@WilliamsRuto) February 8, 2019
Ruto noted it was not proper that the leader of a party garnering the second highest votes had no formal constitutional role.
“Elections in Kenya are a close-run contest. Often enough, the winner and runner-up achieve more than five million votes. The winner ascends to a formally constituted leadership role while the runner-up becomes a virtual stranger in leadership,” he said while addressing Chatham House, London, on Friday.
Maisha ni kujipanga my friend!