In the heartland of Kenya's most storied opposition region, President Ruto spent four days this week not governing but persuading — asking Nyanza to remain inside a political partnership he frames as the final wish of the late Raila Odinga. The broad-based government binding UDA and ODM is being tested by quiet defections and approaching election pressures, and Ruto's tour was an attempt to hold the arrangement together by invoking a legacy that can no longer speak for itself. What unfolds in Nyanza may determine whether post-Raila politics consolidates around national coalition-building or fr