MESUSWA: Ruto’s palindrome enough to woo Western Kenya

President William Ruto’s development tour of Bungoma County over the weekend was received a warm reception by residents as he has, more than any other Head of State, shown his love to the people by the number of visits he has made to the region.

Many political analysts and scholars view the visit as a way of acknowledging the massive support the residents of Bungoma gave him in the last General Election as compared to other counties in the western Kenya belt.

President Ruto is a shrewd politician and a great mobiliser, a trait that makes him rise above the rest of his kind.

A man will get attracted to any beautiful lady to the extent that he will end up promising her Heaven, only to realise later that he’s actually a married man. This is the political trajectory that defines President Ruto.

His palindrome tattarrattat abject is a beguile for personal touch poised to galvanise the regional political Kingpins and bigwigs in his march to the next elections as he seeks to stamp his name in the records of political history of this country.

The jeering and shouting down of some leaders in Bungoma is a red flag and a clear indicator that President Ruto needs nobody to endear himself or rather reach the people at grassroots level.

He will work with the likes of Raila Amolo Odinga, Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Musalia Mudavadi, Trade CS Wycliffe Oparanya and Speaker of National Assembly Moses Wetang’ula to comb through the most rich vote region with equal shares and visibility.

Today, Ruto can dine, dance and sit with a common man in Rusinga and Sindo island whose national language is dholuo with ease.

The followers of the perceived Kingpins are in equal measures falling in line with President Ruto as a wave of change in how politics is played sweeps through the hills and valleys of the country.

The writer, Moses Mesuswa, is a Kenyan journalist, currently a political radio journalist at Kenya Broadcasting Cooperation’s (KBC) subsidiary Ingo FM.