Deputy President William Ruto will have to deal with ruthless revenge from President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga families should he run and lose in 2022 polls.
Already, Ruto's team suspects witch-hunt from the two in the ongoing fight against graft, accusing Mr Odinga and Uhuru of allegedly using DCI George Kinoti to intimidate Ruto.
In an interview with KTN on Wednesday, renowned economist David Ndii also claimed that Ruto is being targeted in graft war, adding that the fight is not genuine.
"If Ruto runs and loses he will be destroyed. If he wins, the dynasties fear he will destroy them. The situation is either we have a dual to death between the two warring sides or at some point pull back from the brink. There is a lot of discomfort in Uhuru support base about Ruto now as Uhuru's successor.
"What you see is a self-preservation strategy. I see a lot of things about this and I categorize it in three pillars, to demobilize opposition, to denaturalize Ruto and to restore the authenticity of the State. What you see are efforts to take the demon of corruption and put it in one person and cleanse the system using Ruto. This is like the biblical story of taking demons out of the person and put them in pigs," he added.
On Tuesday, Uhuru insisted that he was not ready to respond to Ruto's team, adding that he is ready to be grilled by the DCI if someone thinks that he has been involved in graft scandals.
For Mr Odinga, the DP could be having hidden agenda to defraud Kenyans in various graft scandals, adding that his defense in Sh21 billion dams scandal could be an indication that he's a person of interest.
The Kenyatta and Odinga families have dominated Kenya's politics since Independence and the DP has potraying himself as an outsider ready to challenge the status quo.