AJUOK: Temporary political truce, and why Ruto no longer needs ODM experts

Politics is the only game where the knives are usually out at the same time as the smiles, with protagonists raising hands in solidarity, promising undying love and crafting ideological marriages that they head straight to night meetings afterwards to betray.

When the ODM central management committee met on Monday this week in Nairobi, the subsequent press conference seemed nervous and uneasy. You could almost stretch the hand and touch the hidden knives. Some of the smiles were as plastic as toy guns.