Change of tact: Ruto pleads with Uhuru Kenyatta to go easy on him.

Recently, in several of his rallies, Deputy President William Ruto and his lieutenants have been urging the President "to stop hiding behind jamaa wa kitendawili' and come out clear and join the campaign fray. The calls had grown so incessant that the President Of Kenya had to respond to them by telling them, 'it's not yet time for campaigns', the president said, 'and when that time comes I will surely roll back my sleeves and get into the field to campaign for Raila Odinga, and when that happens, I can assure you you won't like it.' The President had added.

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Several weeks down the line after that warning issued on Mombasa by the President, the Deputy President is already crying a river, begging the President not to use the 'knife I helped you get, to stab and cut me into size'. This message appeared well-choreographed and mentioned by all his lieutenants and was planned to be delivered in Uhuru's home turf of Ichaweri.

But some pundits argue that there was no sincerity in Ruto's message. This is not Ruto begging for mercy from the president but this is Ruto appealing for sympathy from the masses and the electorates. In the preceding rallies, Ruto and his team had come under severe criticism for attacking Uhuru in his backyard Mount Kenya. The Kenya kwanza alliance had choreographed a series of attacks towards President Uhuru in his backyard without batting an eyelid, and when they landed in Ichaweri they suddenly turned into victims and saints who were under the mercies of the President, begging for his mercy. Suddenly the all towering and cruel Uhuru had turned into a friend of the Deputy and he was begging him to spare him the presidential sword. This was political mastery of deceit and mind games lately orchestrated by William Ruto. Ruto knows how to play with and sway the masses with emotions and this was just one of his mind games, a fete that most people failed to read, and have failed to, throughout Ruto's campaigns.

William Ruto knew that if he went to Ichaweri with the kind of attacks he had instigated against his boss, he would look bad and in the end, it will be like shooting himself in the leg. So he devised this mercy-attracting scheme and approach to get into the mind and soul of the Gatundu people. A scheme that worked perfectly. Ruto has been employing these tactics over and over with slight variations here and there to suit the crowd and the desired effects at any particular time.

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Most Kenyans have fallen for this kind of theatrics, schemes, and innuendos, so much so that you can't tell them anything about Ruto's split personality. This is the same Ruto who has convinced the Gema nation that Uhuru has done nothing for them, that Kibaki did better than Uhuru especially in building roads, while at the same time when mentioning the good deeds of this government he wants to take credit and discredit Uhuru Kenyatta. He criticizes this government for various misdeeds but believes that all the good deeds of this government are his to claim, yet at one point in London, he said Kenya has only one president and that's not him. Well, it's a fact that the Kenol-Nyeri road which is a dual carriage of over 500 km is the longest dual carriage road in Kenya and East and Central Africa and it's in Central, not Nyanza. But you will find the same Kikuyu being duped, and clapping when Ruto abuses and rubbish President Uhuru's record.

Ruto has captured the mind of the Gema nation and by the time they realize the severity and consequences of their acts, it might be too late in a case of a Ruto presidency. Ruto is a very good student of president Moi and all his tactics can attest to that. Could this be a Moi-reincarnation in the making? Well, the jury is still out on that. As for me, this is just another of Ruto's bipolar and schizophrenic personalities politically and probably in real day-to-day life, am yet to be proven wrong.