The succession politics are taking a center stage despite the fact that we have more than 3 years to the General election. The Presidency Position being the main cause of all the public uproar and heated debates that are taking center stage.
In the previous years this was considered to be ODM’s game, but it has shifted and now it is deep inside JUBILEE party. Who even saw that coming?
In politics, we are always prepared for anything. No one is permanent. This saying that “people change” is just a normal thing in politics. Specifically Kenyan Politics.
But from the look of things The Deputy President William Ruto and his team is upset. They want the Presidency by all means.
Deputy President William Ruto’s allies came out with guns blazing yesterday and threatened to impeach President Kenyatta if the DP is blocked from contesting the presidency in 2022.
Ruto’s supporters spoke on the day Jubilee vice chair David Murathe quit his party position and vowed to go ahead and seek an advisory opinion at the Supreme Court regarding Ruto’s presidential bid, which he has opposed.
“I now find that it is no longer tenable to stay on as the party vice chairman, given that I will have to sit in the same National Executive Council with a man I am taking to court to block from running for president,” he told journalists at his Garden Estate home in Nairobi.
Murathe has vowed to do anything to stop Ruto from succeeding Kenyatta. His stand has resulted in division in the ruling party but the President has not addressed the matter, although unconfirmed reports said yesterday President Kenyatta forced Murathe to quit.
“The President told him to leave the party,” said a source familiar with the matter.
In a rare attack on the President, outspoken Bahati MP Kimani Ngunjiri said if President Kenyatta is tired of leading the country he should call for elections.
“If Kenyatta is tired of leading this country he should immediately call for fresh elections so that we can end this political rumour-mongering,” he said.
The MP added that the Head of State should carry the cross of incitement during past campaigns for his derogatory remarks against National Super Alliance principal Raila Odinga.
“It is Kenyatta who started abusing Raila by calling him a drunkard and a mad person,” he said adding, “If the president has joined ODM, please let him defect and go to ODM.”
Raila and Uhuru entered a truce on March 9, 2018 when they shook hands after the disputed elections of 2017. They have since then been working together for national unity and development. There is even word that Raila’s allies could be included in Cabinet.
President Kenyatta last month distanced himself from a section of Jubilee politicians who are claiming the party will not support DP Ruto in his bid to clinch the presidency in 2022.