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Significance of Ruto's victory in Kiambaa and its impact on the 2022 political transition

Njuguna Wanjiku, Moses Kuria and Ndindi Nyoro celebrate after poll win in Kiambaa. [John Muchucha, Standard]

Men are so simple, and so much creatures of circumstances that the deceiver will always find someone ready to be deceived.

Niccolo Machiavelli                                                                                        

There is no doubt that the outcome of last Thursday’s by-elections in Kiambaa Constituency and Mugaga Ward of Kiambu County gave no bragging right to either President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee Party or Deputy President’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA). 

It is equally true that whilst the rise of the...