Last week, Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition party presidential candidate Raila Odinga indirectly revealed that he had been approached to join President Ruto’s government.
Raila who speaking in Siaya County, during the burial of Ida Odinga’s slain bodyguard Barrack Otieno however dismissed the possibilities of partnering with the government of the day.
“We cannot be threatened or intimidated to join the government,” former Prime Minister Raila Odinga said.
However, speaking at a church service in Karigu-ini, Kenol, in Murang’a County, on Sunday, October 30, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua downplayed Raila’s claims that he had been beseeched to partner with the new regime.
The second in command insisted that the veteran politician is not welcomed in Kenya’s Kwanza government and that he should focus on his opposition roles.
“We have no business with you in our government. We are neither interested nor waiting for you in our government,” Gachagua said.
According to former Mathira MP, incorporating Raila into President Ruto’s government would curse the Kenya Kwanza government not to deliver on its promises to the Kenyans.
He maintained that the President William Ruto-led administration has enough people qualified to advise the Head of State and deliver their pledges made during the campaign period.
Gachagua further linked Kenya’s father of opposition to the failures of the previous regime under the leadership of Rtd President Uhuru Kenyatta.
“The last time he joined Uhuru Kenyatta’s government, didn’t he spoil it? Would you want him near our government?” Gachagua posed.
The ODM leader who was in his Nyanza backyard told his supporters and the local leaders not to be coerced to join the government for them to get development projects.
“We don’t have to go to beg the national government for us to get any development,” Raila said.
