Deputy President, William Ruto, has cried foul and claimed that President Uhuru Kenyatta has a fishy plan to sabotage his bid ahead of the August 9 Election.
Following his Twitter statement on Friday, 29, July, Ruto disclosed that Uhuru operationalise confidential meetings with the administrative sectors aiming to distract his bid.
“President, why are chiefs and other public servants being forced and threatened, in secret meetings, to undermine, manipulate and sabotage peaceful elections?,” Ruto paused a question to President Uhuru.
Without sustainable evidence regarding his allegation, DP Ruto lashed out at his boss stating that his goal is to divide Kenyans on basis of ethnicity.
“What will it benefit you to foment conflict amongst innocent Kenyans? Boss, let’s not take the country in this direction,” he concluded his statement.
The two have been engaging in verbal spats after President Kenyatta declared his support for the ODM party leader Raila Odinga.
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Speaking during a rally at Kapsabet Town in Nandi County, Ruto furiously lashed back claiming he will not be threatened by anybody.
According to the Kenya Kwanza presidential flagbearer, Uhuru had promised to deal with him soon, adding that he will not pay attention to Uhuru’s threats and that instead, he requested the president to act as a unifying factor in this election season.
“I want to ask the president please don’t be a source of threats, stop intimidating people, your work is to make sure there is peace in the country stop telling us that we will know you are the president, stop terrorizing us we cannot be threatened,” said Ruto.
The agitated Ruto further asked Uhuru to show appreciation for the DP’s support in the past, justifying that he stood behind Kenyatta in his last two terms.
The UDA presidential hopeful further asked the president to leave him alone and focus on pushing Raila’s bid.
“Be thankful we helped you when you needed us. When you needed somebody to stand by you, we stood by you to the last,” said Ruto.
“Raila is the one who fought to destabilize your government, stop attacking me, my friend. You just focus on pushing your candidate Raila. Why are you talking about me? Please stop talking about me, talk about your candidate. if you don’t want to support me leave me alone, he added.
The deputy president went ahead and warned the president against threatening him, stating that Uhuru should face him head-on as long the head of state does not involve his family maintaining he was ready to face Raila on the ballot.
“I had you’ve started threatening me? As long as you don’t kill my children I shall face you but please let’s respect each other,” Ruto lashed out.
