The Political temperatures in the Country enroute to 2022 keep rising on a daily basis with new revelations made by various political camps.
For sometime now, the Country has been treated to a William Ruto-Raila Odinga political feud with each of the two political powerhouses accusing each other of one thing or the other.
The latest sideshows all started with the Dams scandal with Raila Odinga accusing Ruto of being corrupt and anti-handshake.
Ruto would then hit back saying that Raila was using the handshake to try and settle political scores with him and inturn ruin the ruling Jubilee Party.
Well, 9th March 2019 saw Opposition Chief Raila Odinga and President Kenyatta bury their political hatchet which culminated to the now famous handshake at the steps of Harambee house.
Word would then start going round that DP William Ruto was kept in the dark during the entire process.
Ruto has finally broken his silence on the whole handshake thing with a hard hitting statement majorly directed to Raila Odinga.
Ruto has exposed how Mr Odinga made several overtures to him, on phone and through emissaries, seeking an engagement but the DP said he declined because he did not believe his sincerity.
Raila Odinga approached me four times to have a discussion but I declined,” Said Ruto.
“I told him we have only one centre of command … I informed the president, whom I told I will not engage Raila.”
The DP said his scepticism in engaging the former premier stemmed from the fact that he did not believe Mr Odinga’s advances were in “good faith”.
He pointed out the aftermath of a merger between Kanu and Mr Odinga’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and the quick fallout between President Mwai Kibaki and the ODM leader in Narc government as some of the lessons that fuelled his scepticism.
“We spoke on phone and it was after the president had appointed the first six Cabinet secretaries. He (Mr Odinga) made suggestions of me being short-changed and so I did not engage him further,” he said.
“I told him the president is the head of the party and we were not running a coalition.”