The war inside Jubilee Party has come out to reveal the hidden secrets that would otherwise be known even sometimes later.
The feeling of being in power being the main cause of all the uproar currently in the ruling party. But a dig deep analysis to the roots and problems of the simmering split then a lot has come out.
The superiority tag between the parties that came up together to form Jubilee Party is also the main reason. URP and TNA being the dominant parties in the merger.
Mr Linturi says most URP associates believed their party was more popular than TNA, and had better prospects in any competitive process.
Mr Ruto stood his ground, insisting on a single outfit, arguing that approaching 2017 as fragmented parties was a recipe for disaster.
His reference was how former President Mwai Kibaki won the election in 2007, but without a majority he could count on to influence policy.
“Even many TNA MPs were spending more time with us than in their own party.
“The DP was easily accessible, available, and never failed to pick anyone’s call or attend to their concerns in case one needed government intervention. Their leader was always unavailable and inaccessible. The situation has not changed,” Mr Linturi said.
Apart from reacting to attacks or provocations from defunct Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD), and later Nasa, Linturi says Mt Kenya leaders rarely voice their views over any issue of note since they are never sure of their leadership’s position.
He creates a bleak picture of an unhappy house that has never known peace since it was hurriedly cobbled together in the trenches of self-preservation from International Criminal Court (ICC) threats against the President and his deputy.
He says some Jubilee members openly opposed the merger, but there were no painless options for extricating themselves from the arrangement imposed by Mr Ruto.
They had to stick together and keep up appearances, lest the opposition capitalised on the fissures before the 2017 election.