Former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua has sneered at his former boss William Ruto and KANU boss Gideon Moi for coming together in a truce.
Ruto and Gideon agreed to shelve their political rivalry to partner under the broadbased government.
The two leaders met twice last week, with the second meeting happening in Gideon's native home in Kabarak, Nakuru County.
Ruto said KANU would enter a formal working pact with Kenya Kwanza to cement their resolve to work together.
Reacting to the development, Gachagua said the display was dishonest and only aimed at personal gains.
Read More
Speaking in Embu County on Saturday, October 11, where he had accompanied other opposition honchos in a political tour, Gachagua blasted Ruto for enhancing tribalism while calling his opponents out over the same.
The former deputy president noted that Ruto was being hypocritical to condemn other leaders uniting calling them tribal, yet he did the same with Gideon, his fellow kinsman in the larger Kalenjin community.
"We saw him uniting with Gideon Moi, yet when we call our people he calls us tribal, but when Kalenjins unite, we are told we are tribal," he said.
Gachagua further asserted that the Ruto and Moi union was indicative of a plot against the Mt Kenya community.
He said Ruto was busy rallying his community in the Rift Valley behind him while sending his deputy, Kithure Kindiki, to divide Mt Kenya.
He is plotting against Mt Kenya. He called his community to unite. We saw him with Gideon Moi. While in Mt Kenya, he sends his deputy to divide the Ameru, Mbeere and Embus. He wants to divide the mountain. But we have vowed not to be divide," he said.
At the same time, Gachagua warned the wing of Mt Kenya politicians who are dissenting from his faction.
He claimed that such politicians were being used by Ruto to divide the mountain.
Gachagua declared that they would not be tolerated.
"Anyone used by Ruto to divide this region is our enemy. Patriotic leaders of the mountain are here with us. Anyone else is a traitor," he said.
Gachagua's pronouncements come days after Githunguri MP Gathoni Wamuchomba declined to join Gachagua's camp.
The MP, while seeking to fight off the accusations of being a traitor, restated her position on Ruto's regime. That she wants it out of power.
Wamuchomba noted that being anti-Ruto can be done outside the Gachagua-led faction.
She said no one owns the monopoly to challenge Ruto out of power.
In any case, she said, those purpoting to be strongly against Ruto were once with him in the Kenya Kwanza camp.
-1760175587.jpg)