Deputy President William Ruto has asked Kakamega residents and the Western region at large to support his 2022 presidential ambition’s because he married from the region.
While addressing a political rally at Likuyani, Ruto said given the fact that they are good neighbours and him being married to Rachael Ruto who hails from the region, they should vote for him come 2022.
The deputy president urged the Kakamega residents that they should stand with their daughter, adding that his win in 2022 will be a win for his Butere in-laws.
The second in command further said that the entire Western region will boast of having a First Lady if he is elected the fifth president.
“I have several home affairs to highlight, Likuyani people, this is where I got my wife Rachael and the Bible says that we should love our neighbours, if you corner me this time around then I will accuse you of abandoning me to God,” DP Ruto said.
The second in command, who was on a two-day political tour in the vote rich Western region to popularise his Bottom-Up economic model, further urged his political competitors to join him as he seeks to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta.
DP Ruto sweet talked his in-laws Amani National Congress (ANC) party leader Musalia Mudavadi and his Ford Kenya counterpart Moses Wetang’ula to join his bandwagon of United Democratic Movement (UDA).
According to, Ruto it would be easier for him if the two One Kenya Alliance (OKA) leaders merge and mount a serious presidential contest and trounce Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga in the upcoming 2022 polls.
DP Ruto was on a political tour of Kakamega County as he seeks to consolidate his support base in the vote-rich region.
His latest visit comes in the backdrop of a resurgent Azimio La Umoja Movement wave in the region and a sustained campaign by Mudavadi to ring-fence what is considered his political bedrock.
