Uhuru Kenyatta formalized, Thursday, February 24, his support for the candidacy of Raila Odinga, his former opponent. The Kenyan president has indeed called on his supporters to vote for the 76-year-old presidential candidate scheduled for August 9.
This support is announced at the expense of the current vice-president, William Ruto, candidate of the United Democratic Alliance. The latter, because of the relations and agreements that bound them, was seen as an heir, President Kenyatta could no longer stand for election. But their relations will quickly deteriorate in the aftermath of the 2017 elections.
“I have a program on which I was elected. The honorable thing to do if you are not happy with it is to step down and allow those who want to go ahead to do so, “said the president to his vice-president. , August 24, 2021.
As a reminder, Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga have been close for three years. After months of tension, the two men – respectively sons of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first president and Oginga Odinga, its first vice-president – made peace on March 9, 2018 with a handshake that has become symbolic. , which marked the end of the post-election crisis in the country.
