Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Youth League member Kasmuel McOure has expressed confidence that President William Ruto is on course to secure a second term in office, citing what he described as growing public acceptance of the President’s leadership.
Speaking to a local television station on Friday, December 19, 2025, McOure said recent political developments indicate that President Ruto has regained popularity and can now freely engage the public across different regions.
“We know that Ruto will become president again, not by rigging as some want us to believe,” McOure said. “A while back, he could not go out and hold rallies freely in certain areas. Yesterday, he mobilised a political rally at night in Nairobi, and he has gone to Central Kenya where he would never have been welcomed before. Now people are chanting ‘two terms.’”
McOure argued that the President only needs a simple majority of voters who believe the country is being governed well to secure re-election.
“The president only has to be voted in by those who feel this is good governance and give him their votes,” he said.
The ODM youth leader, who recently vowed to spearhead engagements between young people and the broad-based government, said current political trends should shape how citizens and political actors make their decisions.
“If things remain as they are and the current trends hold, he will become president again,” McOure said, adding that young people must reflect on how they can participate meaningfully in national transformation.
“As young people, we must ask ourselves how we will participate in shaping our country if this is the choice the population makes. In politics, the side that is more organised and clearer in thought often wins and forms government,” he noted.
McOure’s remarks come days after he proposed a more pragmatic political approach for ODM, calling for a well-negotiated pre-election agreement with President Ruto alongside renewed grassroots mobilisation.
“The path forward is decisiveness,” he said. “We strengthen ODM by engaging in a sober, well-negotiated pre-election agreement with President Ruto while reinvigorating our grassroots machinery and sustaining the aggressive mobilisation that defines our political DNA.”