Tupatane kwa debe!!Waiguru receives backup from Mt Kenya leaders

Days after Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru’s called for elections in the ruling party,Mt Kenya leaders, have backed her.

This move comes after the party’s interim vice-chairman, Mr David Murathe, when he urged western Kenya leaders to unite and “give central Kenya someone they can work with in 2022”.

In effect, Mr Murathe, who is believed to be close to President Uhuru Kenyatta, trashed the political alliance between central Kenya and the Rift Valley, which helped usher in the Jubilee administration in 2013 and returned it to power last year, with Deputy President William Ruto as the second in command and the shoo-in for President come 2022.

Mt Kenya leaders are now calling for elections to address the simmering fissures in the party and to have officials who can authoritatively speak on behalf of the party.

 

Long believed to be a mouthpiece of President Kenyatta, Mr Murathe also appeared to suffer a credibility dent when the President said during a round-table with TV broadcasters on Friday that those speaking on the 2022 succession were doing so without the party’s backing.

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“Those speaking about succession can go ahead but I am not with them. We have never engaged in 2022 politics with Raila (Odinga),” said President Kenyatta when pressed on the intentions of the Building Bridges Initiative.

One MP, however, said the remark should not be taken at face value as Mr Murathe was still very close to the President.

“We know him as a buddy of the President. We even ask for favours through him. Uhuru has not publicly rebuked him, which means his views maybe shared by the President,” the MP, who did not wish to be named discussing confidential protocol issues, said.

The leaders accused Mr Murathe of fronting ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi to be President Kenyatta’s successor instead of backing Dr Ruto “as the party decided in 2013.”

But others defended Mr Murathe, noting that he represents a “key voice” in the central region.

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