Deputy President William Ruto may be planning to ditch Jubilee for a smaller party even as he hopes to remain the running mate of President Uhuru Kenyatta during the August 8th General Election.
This is after he gave a clear indication that he has direct links with one of the small parties registered by Jubilee – Party of Development and Reforms (PDR).
The DP has even allowed the little known party to occupy his private office, situated in Nairobi’s Central Business District.
The party is now operating from the 9th floor of the Trans National Bank House along City Hall Way.
Ruto was using the office since 2007 as MP for Eldoret North and also as a Minister in the Grand Coalition Government.
He visited the office the last time in 2015 and it has since remained closed.
Sources have intimated that Ruto had adopted PDR as a fallback plan in case things don’t go as planned in Jubilee during and after the August 8th General Election.
The party may also come in handy for his 2022 Presidential bid in case President Uhuru Kenyatta and Mt. Kenya decide to throw him under the bus.
During a rally in Wajir on Saturday, President Uhuru Kenyatta gave the party the nod to work with Jubilee, where he urged residents to vote for him at the top but embrace smaller parties like PDR at the grass roots.
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