The fallout in the Jubilee Party is almost total, with allies of Deputy President William Ruto no longer concealing the target of a vicious tirade.
Former Senate Majority Leader and Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen is hitting out at President Uhuru Kenyatta, accusing him of orchestrating a plan to frustrate the DP’s State House journey.
But President Kenyatta’s lieutenants, led by Jubilee Vice Chairman David Murathe and a section of the Cabinet, claim Ruto was the architect of his own downfall due to what they term as “a premature succession campaign.”
The tell-tale signs of the grand fallout in the ruling party were all too clear from the onset, the initial shadow boxing has now mutated to an all-out combat.
“The problems that are bedeviling the deputy president have nothing to do with Raila Odinga, it has everything to do with Uhuru Kenyatta and planning by himself,” Murkomen recently told Citizen TV.
Murathe, in a separate interview, said: “We don’t know who will be president, but we’re working very hard to know who will not become president.”
That the UhuRuto political marriage has hit the rocks is now an open secret, the divorce proceedings too loud and obvious, with the DP’s allies now saying the March 2018 handshake hastened what they term as President Kenyatta’s ‘kicking the ladder’ mentality.
“If I met President Kenyatta today I would look him eye-to-eye and ask him what is that one mistake that washes away what William Ruto did for him from 2002 to winning the first, second and rerun elections,” said Murkomen.
“People go to church and swear before man and God to get married till death do them part, but they still divorce. Politics is dynamic; if you started by behaving well and you change your character along the way, then everybody has a right to change their minds about the position,” opined Murathe.
