A growing rift between Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto could break up the ruling Jubilee Party ahead of 2022 elections, raising the risk of ethnic violence that could damage investor confidence in one of Africa’s leading economies. On Oct. 2, the Jubilee Party’s National Management Committee recommended that Ruto be removed from his post after he and his allies stormed the party’s headquarters to try to hold a meeting. Kenyatta’s close collaboration with opposition leader Raila Odinga on reform efforts has quickly unraveled his alliance with Ruto, which helped to stabilize Kenyan politics in recent years. Kenyatta and Ruto formed a political alliance ahead of 2013 presidential elections under a tacit understanding that the former would support the latter at the end of Kenyatta’s second term. Kenyatta and Ruto’s alliance was always a marriage of convenience between the rival Kikuyu and Kalenjin ethnic groups.