The 2022 succession politics have continued to take center stage in most public events. This has exposed the nature of how the communities will take their side.
Already the main contestants will be William Ruto and Raila Odinga.
Already the factor of mount Kenya votes is being contested with the question of the region supporting the deputy president.
Already the mount Kenya Mafia(tycoon criminals) have been manipulating and gaining big during the electoral period on pushing the community on the route to take.
A source has hinted that the group of the elite is worried of the DP presidency as they term him as an extremely selfish and egocentric person who feels so much entitled to the Presidency such that any constitutional amendment that is intended to water down the immense powers of the President is a threat to him.
He is a conservative student of Moi who believes in the winner-takes-it-all phenomenon. He believes that power is not power if it is not consolidated and centralized.
Some have described him as dangerous just like Sani Abacha and Samuel Doe- the two despots who packaged themselves as hustlers before they drove their countries into ruins. Their countries have lived to regret their tenures.
The Mount Kenya Mafia now want to go back on their word by hollowing out the presidency, so that Ruto inherits a powerless office.
They argue that if the DP will still argue on succeeding Uhuru constitutional reform must be done to make the position of the presidency powerless.
Irungu Nyakera, the Stanford University educated, 37-year-old former Permanent Secretary, now the Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Party, has cautioned in an interview that Mt. Kenya leaders must start regular meetings to avoid becoming puppets of external forces.
“If we are not engaging regularly enough, if we are not planning, then we shall be in trouble. If [the] Mt. Kenya [bloc] breaks, it is finished,” said Irungu in an interview with Mt. Kenya Star.
His sentiments come at a time of rising concerns that one arm of the Jubilee is using financial incentives to influence the direction of Mt. Kenya politics.
President Uhuru Kenyatta previously came out strongly to condemn region’s leaders who have been engaged in constant politics instead of being development-focused, a matter which among which contributed to the fault-lines of his now uncertain relations with the Deputy President William Ruto.
Recently Kikuyu council of elders said that they will not be compelled to support anyone who has no capacity to lead and protect the region’s property.
Some players believe that the DP will not be in a position to protect the properties and instead he might use the position to abuse power.
“There will be a next leader for the region, a politician to fight for our interests. But that leader must be nurtured by the people of Mt. Kenya. However, will this happen if we do not have a common political forum? No. That person is out there and there is a need for a common forum to start grooming that person.”Currently because of lack of regular engagements, any leader who tries to come up for the region is fought. This needs to stop. Mt. Kenya needs a Think-Tank that will assist in addressing all these issues.”