President William Ruto addresses members of the public after inspecting the Dhogoye Bridge and the ongoing road works in the area, Bondo, Siaya County.

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On the third day of his Nyanza tour, President William Ruto took his battle with the emerging Linda Mwananchi movement straight to Governor James Orengo’s political backyard in Siaya, warning voters against experimenting with what he called fledgling political formations.

The President urged the electorate to rally behind parties within the broad-based government, dismissing newly formed and yet to be registered outfits as formations lacking the ideological depth, national reach and tested machinery needed to steer the country.

The choice of Siaya was loaded with symbolism. Dr Ruto’s message came days before the Linda Mwananchi team is expected to pitch camp in the county, turning his development tour into an early political contest over who controls Nyanza’s post-Raila Odinga political space.

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Supporters dance as they wait for President William Ruto to address them at Ahindi Gardens in Siaya County on September 15, 2026.

He questioned Governor Orengo’s decision to join a movement he claimed was being sponsored to attack him, urging the county boss instead to work with his administration to develop the region.

“I am telling Orengo to leave the outfit called Linda Sponsors or Linda Sponyo and join me in this development journey and build hospitals. I am asking you people, did you choose him to join Linda Sponsors? Why does he allow himself to be a political stooge and puppet to be used by a former president who has retired? Orengo has really disappointed us,” said Dr Ruto.

The President also renewed his attacks on former President Uhuru Kenyatta, accusing him of abandoning the role of a statesman and becoming a ‘rebel’ leader bent on destabilising his government.

“This Uhuru Kenyatta did not beat me when he was a sitting president, and now that I am the president and he has retired, how will he beat him? Instead of being a statesman, he has turned into a ‘rebel leader’. Even the courts have told him to keep off. It is very embarrassing,” said Dr Ruto.

He claimed Mr Kenyatta was sponsoring politicians to face him after failing to implement various programmes in the education and health sectors.

📰 Source: Nation Africa