Some people might be baffled by the images of the president campaigning while the economy is crumbling. This shouldn’t be puzzling if you go back to 2007.
That election showed that economic performance can’t guarantee a president reelection. Because of our primitive tribal politics, people would rather suffer economic ruin while one of their own is in power. Kibaki literally trippled Kenya’s GDP in five years, and could not even win it clean.
In any other common sense country, a president who pushed GDP to tripple its size in five years should not even have had to campaign.
He moved the size form barely 12 billion to over 30 billion, and was set to do much more than that, but it showed the world and politicians that elections and economic performance have nothing in common. You can cry all you want but Kenyans are not driven by performance, they’re driven by sex and nonsense. Case in Point - KTALK
So muwache kusumbua Ruto, his job is to be president, which he has achieved, his next job is to be president, which he will achieve
