MOMBASA, Kenya
Kenya’s Deputy President, William Ruto has told off President Uhuru Kenyatta for what he described as the president's use of State House to plant seeds of discord and division among Kenyans.
Stung by the president's
allegations of plotting to topple him, DP Ruto directly addressed President
Kenyatta asking the president to be the unifying factor instead of engaging in
propaganda.
The DP was speaking on his
third day of the Coastal region campaigns where he led his Kenya Kwanza allies
to Msambweni, Kwale.
“Please Mr. President, you are
the leader of all Kenyans, don’t allow State House to be used as the theatre of
planting of seeds of division of the Kenyans,” said Ruto as he termed the
allegations as baseless.
“Mr President you know it is
not true it is false and I want to ask you out of humility to protect the
office of the president,” he said.
Ruto is locked in a fierce
presidential contest with ODM leader Raila Odinga who has the backing of
President Kenyatta.
"Even though you do not
want to support me... it is fine. I supported you unconditionally. My friend Mr
President. please do not allow State House to be the arena where falsehoods,
propaganda, and negative ethnicity are being propagated against me as your
deputy. My friend I stood by you when no other person was ready to stand by
you...," said Ruto.
On Satursday, President Uhuru
Kenyatta spoke for the first time of an alleged plan by his deputy, William
Ruto, to engineer his ouster through impeachment and sabotage.
Kenyatta, who was addressing
Gìkùyù elders who visited him at State House, Nairobi said Ruto had an
insatiable appetite for power and was keen on fomenting dissent from within the
Jubilee party, to elbow his boss.
The President also took time
to explain to the elders why he reached out to ODM Leader Raila Odinga and
shook hands in March 2018.
Explaining the Handshake,
Kenyatta told the elders that he reached out to his arch-rival turned ally, to
steady the government, and slow puncture what he termed Ruto's grand plan to
sabotage his administration and ascend to power through the backdoor.
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