The political temperatures in the country are at the moment rising in what appears to be a face-off between Deputy President William Ruto and ODM leader Raila Odinga over the 2022 presidential poll.
As it is sure that President Uhuru Kenyatta will retire in 2022, Raila has left his supporters and competitors guessing on his next move.
Ruto and his backers have however accused Raila of rocking the Jubilee party in order to have a walk in the park in the 2022 presidential race.
This has created political tension between the two leaders.
Interestingly, the two politicians are currently considered Kenya’s political masters. They are scheming, suave, shrewd and have diehard political backers.
Another character that defines the two leaders is their ability to create humorous stories.
It is Raila who started by telling guests that one of his friends during a trip to London told him the whites were foolish for saying that ‘behind every successful man, there is a woman’.
Instead, the friend made a ‘dirty’ joke.
“He asked what is a woman doing behind a man? The only time a woman makes a man happy is when he is in front of him,” Raila said to the laughter of those attending.
When the DP took the microphone, he took a light swipe at the opposition chief.
“There is this story that is often told that Mama Ida was once asked, and who are you? She said I am Ida. Then she was asked, oh Raila Odinga’s wife? Then she said, why do you say that? When Raila introduces himself, does he say Ida’s husband? Maybe she will tell us the truth of that story,” Ruto said leaving guests, including President Uhuru Kenyatta, in stitches.
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