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Will Uhuru's big gamble on Raila pay off?

President Uhuru Kenyatta when he was received by ODM party leader Raila Odinga at Kisumu International Airport on May 30, 2021. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

President Uhuru Kenyatta has carried his political sacrifice beyond the political crossroads. On Friday, he declared his support for the Azimio la Umoja effort to make ODM leader, Raila Odinga, Kenya’s fifth president. That brings to an end any expectation that the president could ever mend fences with his estranged deputy and support Dr William Ruto’s bid. It also perches the president on the hinge of fate in what promises to be a bruising political dog fight from now to August 9, and probably beyond. It is not the size of the top dogs in the fight that will count, but the size of the fight in the dogs.  

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