Deputy President William Ruto, was on Wednesday, January 8, asked to depose President Uhuru Kenyatta from the Jubilee party leadership by the former party vice-chairman, David Murathe.
The vocal Uhuru supporter dared the DP to go head to head with the president in the upcoming party elections, as it was the only way he'd be able to stop the party leader from assuming the role of Prime Minister proposed in the BBI report, the Standard reported.
"I challenge them to declare if they will be challenging the president for the party leader's position since nothing stops him from continuing as party leader," he quipped.
"Uhuru has not said that he wants to be PM, but nothing stops him from continuing to lead the party, and if the party wins and he is the party leader, then he can be the Prime Minister," he added.
The former Jubilee vice-chair is believed to have made his latest remarks in response to DP Ruto's recent assertion that the president was being pressurized by political cartels to cling on to power after completing his two terms.
"If the deputy president who has served two terms in the presidency, is eligible to run for president, why can't the president run for prime minister in the new political dispensation?" Murathe posed.
Speaking during the burial of Mathira MP Rigathi Gachagua’s mother, Martha Kirigo on January 7, the DP made it clear that neither the president nor himself had any intentions of amending the constitution to allow him to remain in power.
"Uhuru believes in democracy. Our constitution is one that represents each and every Kenyan. All these stories are just rumours being spread by individuals with ill-intentions, they should just look elsewhere," he reiterated.
"He has a legacy to protect and he is not interested in changing the constitution to perpetuate matters that are personal. He has done a good job, look at all the roads he has developed," Ruto added.
Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria told Kenyans.co.ke, that Uhuru had no intention of vying for any political position and would rather follow in former President Mwai Kibaki's footsteps and retire come 2022 without endorsing any successor.
The vocal legislator further accused Murathe of speaking on behalf of 'dark forces who have captured the state apparatus but not the president himself.
