The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) MP Kanini Kega has challenged former President Uhuru Kenyatta to keep off his successor William Ruto's regime.
Addressing a gathering in Bahati Constituency on Wednesday, July 15, the lawmaker who is gunning to replace Jeremiah Kioni as Jubilee Party Secretary General asked the former Head of State to reach out to former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and call off the protests.
He also called Uhuru out for not supporting Ruto claiming that the Head of State supported him during his regime.
"To the former President Uhuru Kenyatta, the gentleman who is now the President now stood with you for 10 years when you were the President as his principal assistant. Helped him work. In 2002, the same gentleman (Ruto)stood with him.
"What we are requesting from Uhuru, Kindly let the government William Ruto be. Talk to former Prime Minister Raila Odinga because the cost of living will not be brought down through protests," he chastised.
He further urged Azimio la Umoja leaders to accept defeat and acknowledge that Ruto is now Kenya's president.
"We went to the elections and we lost. Let's say the truth, the current government is headed by President William Ruto and he is the President. Let us give him a chance to work," he added.
Other leaders including Digital Strategist Dennis Itumbi previously accused Uhuru of throwing his weight behind the protests frustrating William Ruto's government.
In particular, Itumbi claimed that the former President chaired a meeting with Azimio legislators on July 6, where they crafted countermeasures to disrupt government activities, beginning with the July 7 Saba Saba protests.
According to Ruto's camp, one of the ideas floated in the meeting allegedly chaired by Uhuru was the collection of 10 million signatures to unseat President William Ruto.
"After an early morning meeting at Raila Odinga' Kerarapon home between Former President Uhuru and Raila Odinga today. A secret emergency meeting was called by Azimio.
"The meeting agreed that there would be no maandamano in Nairobi and that instead, they would go to Kamukunji grounds and launch the website and public collection of signatures," Itumbi claimed.
Taking Over
Kega, who is leading a Jubilee Party faction working with President Ruto putting him at loggerheads with Uhuru, is seeking to be recognised as the former ruling party's secretary general.
On Monday, July 10, the EALA MP got temporary relief after the Political Parties Dispute Tribunal (PPDT) declared him the SG and ejected Jeremiah Kioni and David Murathe from party leadership.
The ruling was, however, shortlived after the High Court issued conservatory orders stopping the Kanini Kega faction from taking over Jubilee Party.
