The famous handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and NASA leader Raila Odinga may probe to be the game-changer in Nyanza politics going into the 2022 political contest.
After being consigned to the 'political dustbin' in the region, former Rarieda MP Raphael Tuju is seemingly becoming the greatest winner in the Raila -Uhuru truce as hostilities which have long dimmed his political fortunes in the region slowly becoming a thing of the past.
Before the handshake, the Jubilee Party Secretary General had difficulties even visiting his home county of Siaya for allegedly being a traitor. But times change.
The former Minister in the President Mwai Kibaki regime is reinventing his political career. His meeting with Kisumu Governor Anyang Nyong'o on Monday confirmed that Tuju who has been fighting for his political life might come back in style.
Prof. Nyong'o, Raila's right hand man and Tuju have never been seeing eye to eye, but after a ceasefire, the two are now mending fences.
So what next for the man whose development record as Rarieda MP during his tenure, was very much applauded? Though he is yet to declare his next political move after 10 years in the cold, President Uhuru Kenyatta's Cabinet Secretary without portfolio is the man to watch in 2022, thanks to Raila's deal with Uhuru.