Baringo Senator Gideon Moi on Wednesday told President Uhuru Kenyatta to talk to Rift Valley residents directly if he wanted to win the upcoming General Election.
Speaking in Emurua Dikirr, Narok County, during a fundraiser, Moi told Uhuru that the Rift Valley people would not vote for him if he continued to use Deputy President William Ruto to address the residents from the region.
The senator stated that people from Rift Valley had lost trust in Ruto because he was always using derogatory language and abusing leaders.
“We say in no uncertain terms that we don’t want proxies to get to us. Let Uhuru engage with people who cast votes for him. In any case we don’t want a person who thinks too highly of himself and who...is looking condescendingly on us,” the Senator stated.
Moi told Kenyatta not to trust his deputy if he wanted to retain the huge chunks of votes he gained from the region in 2013.
Meanwhile, details emerged on Thursday that the President had called Gideon and pleaded with him not to join NASA – the National Super Alliance.
ODM leader Raila Odinga and ANC Musalia Mudavadi had been persuading the KANU leader to join them in a bid to send home the Jubilee administration in the upcoming General Election.
According to sources, Uhuru's call to the Senator seemed to have appealed to the former President's son forcing him to announce last week on Friday that KANU would stick to the MOU it signed with Jubilee in 2013 and was not in a hurry to join any alliance.
