By Nyanza Wire 
Power governs quietly. Noise trends. President William Samoei Ruto is building systems that transform Kenya – not rhetoric that divides it.
Every election cycle produces noise. Very few produce power.
Every political season births its prophets of chaos.
They shout.
They posture.
They trend.
And then they disappear.
Because history is unkind to noise – and brutally honest about power.
Power is not the loudest voice in the room.
Power is capacity.
Power is movement.
Power is execution.
Power is the ability to convert ideas into institutions, promises into policy, and vision into visible change.
That is why opposition theatrics – however dramatic – cannot defeat President William Samoei Ruto.
The mistake many make is assuming elections are won by outrage.
They are not.
They are won by structure.
By coalitions.
By delivery.
By presence.
Governments that lose elections first lose legitimacy.
This government is doing the opposite – it is entrenching itself.
Schools are funded before reopening.
Teachers are hired and promoted.
Young people are financed, trained, certified, and absorbed.
Housing is rising.
Markets are opening.
Jobs are becoming pathways, not slogans.
This is not messaging.
This is machinery.
Opposition politics today is performative – angry without agenda, loud without leverage, emotional without infrastructure.
They mistake microphones for momentum.
They confuse hashtags for strategy.
They believe unity declarations can replace voter coalitions.
They cannot.
Because while they rehearse press conferences, the State is governing.
While they negotiate among themselves, the President is negotiating with reality.
And reality rewards those who show up.
Power is cumulative.
It grows quietly.
It compounds.
By the time noise realises it has lost relevance, power has already moved on.
This is why the opposition will not defeat Ruto – not because dissent is illegitimate, but because it is unprepared.
You cannot defeat a moving train by shouting at it.
You must build another railway.
They have not.
History teaches us this lesson relentlessly:
Revolutions begin with passion – but governments are sustained by systems.
President Ruto has built systems.
The opposition has built grievances.
One wins elections.
The other wins debates.
And so, as 2027 approaches, the question is no longer who is loudest?
It is who is ready?
Power answers quietly.
Noise screams.
And power always arrives first.
Power is never defeated by noise.
It is defeated by better power.
Until then –
Noise will trend.
Power will govern.
Disembe 
Joshua Nyamori