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I’m not taking sides in Kenyan elections- Museveni

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By Kwanta Douglas –

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has said he will not take sides in the Kenyan presidential elections scheduled for August, dispelling claims and rumours that Uganda and the ruling National Resistance Movement Party (NRM) support Deputy President William Ruto.

DP Ruto, ODM leader and former prime minister Raila Odinga, ANC party leader Musalia Mudavadi and several others, including former governors and diplomats, have expressed interest in running to become Kenya’s fifth president.

Speaking to local media in Kampala, President Museveni said, “Elections in Kenya or any other African country are a matter of the people of that country. We never take sides in the internal matters of other countries. So, we have no side in the Kenya elections.”

Until he was blocked from flying to Uganda in August last year for what he had termed a private visit, DP Ruto had made frequent visits to the country, including in 2015 when he joined President Museveni on a campaign rally in Kapchorwa, and referred to him as a role model.

“The peace and stability that the NRM has brought in Uganda has allowed joint projects,” he said then.

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