President Uhuru Kenyatta spoke for the first time of an alleged plan by his deputy, William Ruto, to engineer his ouster through impeachment and sabotage.
Kenyatta, who was addressing Gìkùyù elders who visited him at State House, Nairobi said Ruto had an insatiable appetite for power and was keen on fomenting dissent from within the Jubilee party, to elbow his boss.
The President also took time to explain to the elders why he reached out to ODM Leader Raila Odinga and shook hands in March 2018.
Explaining the Handshake, Kenyatta told the elders that he reached out to his arch-rival turned ally, to steady the government, and slow puncture what he termed Ruto’s grand plan to sabotage his administration and ascend to power through the backdoor.
Kenyatta accused Ruto of opposing the handshake and pushing him to play hardball against the ODM leader, with whom he had faced off in the August 2017 presidential race, whose outcome was overturned by the Supreme Court.
With the Presidential race 135 days away, Kenyatta justified his choice of Odinga as his preferred successor, terming Ruto impatient and a leader who focused more on the 2022 succession politics than the execution of his duties as his principal assistant.
The Head of State took the opportunity to call on all parties allied to the Azimio la Umoja outfit in central Kenya to wisely field candidates and ensure they do not split votes, to the advantage of candidates allied to Ruto’s UDA party.
Kenyatta urging the elders and political leaders present to mobilize their supporters to vote for Odinga, but also emerge with a majority of Members of Parliament in the National Assembly and Senate, Governors and MCA’s, to secure the community’s and regional interests in the government that will be established after the August polls.
Uhuru thinks people are stupid. How many times is his story going to change? Whenever he drinks anakuja na hekaya tofauti. Hapo mbeleni alikua anasema hataki Ruto because Ruto anafanya siasa mapema! What I know is that drunkard Uhuru will keep on mumbling incoherently until…
Na hata kama Ruto might be the devil himself, is Raila actually the right and the only substitute he could think of, surely? I had thought he was grooming shoga Matiang’i to be his successor with all the hyping and all! Si hata heri angelipa Mudavadi ile ndeni ya 2013 alipomwita madimoni?
Low blow. But Moses Kuria has already been cursed by Athuuri a Kiama kiama (Wazee)
But truth be told as we all put in this forum, if JSKS ever wins (@God forbid) he is not leaving that seat anytime soon.
During their first “Innings” ( …when we witnessed a lot of their “Bromance” in the media… and some of you clowns in here cheering like baboons on treetops ), …
I prophetically stated here that in a few short years , all that euphoria will soon usher in a somber reality …
It has now come to pass …
Long Story short …
The President has the power to appoint and dismiss any Cabinet Member at his pleasure , and that includes the DP …
He should have read the “Tea Leaves” and done so years ago … :D:D
:D:D:D
To think the same politicians that “supposedly” rigged in Uhuruto would’ve gone ahead and impeached Uhuru for Ruto.
Kenyan politicians are the scum of the earth.
TANGATANGA Mt. Kenya MPs: Tell us what Ruto did to you.
UHURU: He attempted to take me out. To kill me.
TANGATANGA Mt. Kenya MPs: Hmmm, but si he did not succeed…why not support him.
It is like telling your daughter to marry the man who tried to rape her
