Nairobi, Aug. 9 -- One year from today, Kenyans will troop to polling stations to deliver a verdict on who governs them until 2032.

They will choose whether to hand President William Ruto another five-year contract or clear the way for someone else.

In the same election already framed as 'Tutam' versus 'Wantam', the voters will elect 290 members of the National Assembly, 47 governors and their deputies, 47 woman representatives, 47 senators, and 1,450 members of county assemblies.

This will be the eighth General Election since the reintroduction of multiparty politics in 1992.

Notably, it will be the second election since 1997 in which Raila Odinga's name will not appear on a presidential ballot paper. Mr Odinga died last October. "Th...