Deputy President William Ruto will on Sunday make another trip to Kirinyaga County only a week after he graced a church fundraiser in Kirinyaga Central.
According to a Facebook announcement by Kirinyaga Women representative Purity Ngirici, Ruto will be attending another fundraising event at Baricho parish in Ndia constituency.
Last week Sunday, Ruto was at Kangaita Catholic Church an event which was snubbed by Kirinyaga County governor Anne Waiguru and her Deputy.
The absence of Waiguru who was expected to receive the Second in command who is also her Deputy party leader in Jubilee elicited mixed reactions.
Initially, Waiguru had been proposed by a section of politicians from the Mt Kenya and Rift Valley regions as Ruto's best running mate in the upcoming 2022 presidential elections.
However, Waiguru during a past interview with a local media house said that she might support Ruto's perceived top rival and ODM party leader Raila Odinga in the coming polls.
She also added that she strongly behind the 2018 handshake between Raila and President Kenyatta a factor which Ruto and his allies have been questioning.
Therefore, Ruto's several trips to Kirinyaga are efforts to counter governor Waiguru in case she will join his rivals in the already much heated 2022 succession politics. He is determined to win the maximum support of Kirinyaga residents should their governor decides to desert him.
It is important to note that Ruto attended Waiguru's inauguration ceremony as the new Kirinyaga governor in 2017. This was seen as a beginning of new political formation between Ruto and Waiguru but the current political behaviours between the two indicate otherwise.