Ruto, Raila teams score low blows with camps firing personal salvos
Azimio la Umoja movement supporters at a rally in Jacaranda grounds, Nairobi in March, led by former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE | NMG
The presidential campaign teams of Deputy President William Ruto and former prime minister Raila Odinga have stepped up personalised attacks on each other in recent days, heightening an already charged race, only four months to the August election day.
DP Ruto loyalists, still smarting from President Uhuru Kenyatta’s endorsement of opposition leader Raila Odinga, are now openly targeting the president’s family and its vast wealth, in a campaign to stoke public resentment in the middle of increasing high cost of living and a fuel crisis.
