By Njoroge Achebe, YeyeNews.com, September 9, 2021
Kenya’s Vice President William Ruto has reached out to Nigeria’s former Vice President Abubakar Atiku as he fights for survival in a deadly political landscape of Kenya. Mr. Ruto is facing series of obstacles threatening to derail his dream of inheriting the presidency from Uhuru Kenyetta.
Political observers in Nairobi told YeyeNews.com that Uhuru Kenyatta had pulled his hair and swallowed that over his dead body would his Vice President take over from him.
“It is the same situation that Abubakar Atiku faced in 2007 when he wanted to succeed former President Olusegun Obasanjo,” the analyst who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorized to reveal internal campaign matters. “Same thing. No difference at all. In fact, Kenyetta’s reason for opposing Ruto is the same as Obasanjo’s reason for opposing Atiku and that is corruption.”
In draft letters Mr. Ruto sent to Atiku, which YeyeNews.com was privileged to see, Ruto appealed to Atiku to help him with strategies that would make him (Ruto) succeed where he (Atiku) failed. “I heard that there was a time you had Obasanjo by the balls,” Ruto writes, “But you relented because he was pleading. I do not want to make that kind of mistake.”
Mr. Ruto mentioned possible strategies that he is considering in his planned all-out war against President Kenyatta. He lamented that his clandestine efforts to get Kenyans angry that their president smokes weed and drinks like a sailor whose eyes were always red did not gain traction.
Anonymous source told YeyeNews.com that Ruto’s Nigerian son-in-law, Dr. Alexander Ezenagu, an Assistant Professor of Taxation and Commercial Law at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, worked his connections and connected him to solicit ideas from Atiku.
In another letter seen by YeyeNews.com, which indicated that Atiku responded to him, Mr. Ruto dismissed Atiku’s suggestion to use women against the president. “That one won’t work,” Mr. Ruto writes, “we are all guilty of that one.”
Kenya’s election is slated to take place next year. YeyeNews.com has hired an East African correspondent to cover the election for us.
