William Ruto: Will he be one-term President?

Wiper Leader Kalonzo Musyoka, Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, DAP- Kenya party Eugene Wamalwa during the launch of new DAP- Kenya party headquarters in Karen, Nairobi on January 27, 2025. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

“The team seated here is the one that will make Ruto a one-term president.” That was the Democratic Alliance (Kenya) (DAP-Kenya) leader, Eugene Wamalwa, speaking at the opening of his party headquarters in Nairobi, last Monday. The theme of the day was the one-term affair, a refrain that cuts to the quick both President William Ruto and his acolytes.

“No Kenyan president has served only one term, and Ruto will not be the exception,” the renegade Cotu Secretary-General Francis Atwoli says, time and again.

This refrain is frequently echoed across the valley, in the North Rift, by the President’s inner core.