Amid claims of a broken relationship between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto, the political analyst believes that the head of state has all it takes to completely destroy the DP's political career.
Constitutionally, the President has no powers to fire his deputy. However, according to political commentator Sam Omwenga, President Kenyatta has all the powers to end Dr Ruto's political career.
" The President may not have the power to sack the DP but he may have an arsenal of tools readily available to him to render Ruto irrelevant or out of office before 2022," said the analyst.
According to Omwenga, the sacking of former Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri on Tuesday is just one of the instances that show that the President has the powers to weaken the Deputy President.
While suggesting that the President will have a bigger say in the 2022 President contest, the analyst believes that Uhuru will use his advantage of incumbency to determine his choice of a successor.
"It is called the power of incumbency or the system. If the system says you are not seeing inside of State House, believe it, you are not going to," he added.