Kieleweke vs Tanga Tanga: Who Will Have the Last Laugh?

In the run up to the 2022 Kenya presidential elections, two camps have apparently emerged in the Jubilee party. One is the Kieleweke camp that apparently leans towards the President. The other one is the Tanga Tanga camp, that apparently leans towards the Deputy President. The question that many people are asking themselves as to which of these two camps will have the last laugh.

Only time will tell whether it is the pro-Ruto Tanga Tanga camp or the pro-Uhuru Kielewe camp that will have the last laugh. 

In all this, it is worth remembering that Uhuru is a serious political player, one who has evolved from an out-of-favor contender in the 2002 presidential election to the winner in the 2013 presidential election. You are looking at someone who actually has university education in political science, someone who comes from the so-called African royal lineages, and that surely has to count for something. (By the way, it is also under UhuruRuto that things like online driving licenseapplication have become possible, even as the poorest of the poor got access to Kenya power prepaid token electricity)

Yet it would be unfair to assume that the two top politicians have completely fallen out, because they haven’t publicly said so and the government seems to be operating as usual.

On the other hand, one has to understand (at least as per my reading on the situation) that Ruto has a real stake in Jubilee, complete with his own power base. So you are not looking at someone similar to the vice presidents of the old constitution, waiting to be endorsed/waiting to be handed power on a silver platter. You are looking at a political go-getter, one who clearly knows how to work the system and how political seats can be 'won', and that too has to count for something.

In the final analysis, it may not be a case of one of the camps (Kielewe vs Tanga Tanga) having a last laugh. Rather (and hopefully so), we may end up with rapprochement between the two camps that ultimately leads to a more united, more prosperous Kenya.