Uhuru Kenyatta still bitter over 2022 election loss; Ruto
President William Ruto has accused his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta of failing to move on from his defeat in the 2022 presidential election
President William Ruto has accused his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta of failing to move on from his defeat in the 2022 presidential election, escalating their political rivalry as the 2027 contest takes shape.
Ruto said Uhuru’s continued involvement in opposition politics was rooted in frustration over the election loss, claiming the former president had expected his administration to collapse within months of taking office.
“It is an open secret that my predecessor has not gotten out of what happened in 2022. That despite everything he did, I won the election,” Ruto said while addressing journalists at the Statehouse.
The President was responding to renewed focus on Uhuru’s role in opposition politics after the former president chaired an Azimio meeting on August 3, amid efforts to build a broad coalition to challenge Ruto in 2027.
Ruto had earlier alluded that Uhuru was behind efforts to consolidate opposition forces, accusing him of supporting and organising political allies to challenge his administration.
The accusations marked a sharp deterioration in relations between the two leaders, who worked together for a decade before falling out after Ruto was left out of Uhuru’s succession plans.
Ruto went on to defeat Azimio candidate Raila Odinga in the 2022 presidential election, winning 50.5 per cent of the vote, with the Supreme Court later upholding his victory.
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In Eldoret on August 13, Ruto questioned Uhuru’s record on affordable housing, universal healthcare and education, saying his former boss had failed to deliver on issues he was now criticising the Kenya Kwanza administration over.
The President said Uhuru had predicted before a meeting of the Azimio Parliamentary Group that his government would fail within three months, arguing that the former president was aware of the difficult economic circumstances the country faced at the time.
Ruto said the prediction had not materialised, pointing to lower inflation, improved foreign exchange reserves, managed interest and exchange rates and increased investor confidence as evidence of economic recovery.
“The country did not default. The tattered economy that he left is in a different place today,” he said.
He further said that Kenya had risen to become Africa’s sixth-largest economy under his leadership, despite the difficult economic circumstances he said his administration inherited.
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