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President Uhuru tells his critic to be ready for the battle

by Amos Khaemba

President Uhuru Kenyatta is ready for a political battle with his critics, as he reveals he will decisively be involved in his succession politics in the coming August 9 election.

Speaking at State House on Friday, February 4 during the Jubilee Parliamentary Group (PG), the head of state told his troops he will now hit the campaign trail.

In a press release by Jubilee Secretary General Raphael Tuju after the meeting, Uhuru is said to have warned those who think Jubilee is dead to watch out, as the president said Jubilee is alive and was only working for Kenyans.

“If anyone asks you where Jubilee had been in the near past just tell them we had gone to work to serve Kenyans,

“Now Jubilee is back in the political arena as we prepare for the forthcoming General Election,” President Uhuru told the leaders.

In what points to a looming battle with his Deputy William Ruto, President Uhuru has been retained as the party leader and mandated to lead the negotiation of the party with other like-minded parties ahead of the August election.

“After a robust debate, it was resolved that President Uhuru Kenyatta will continue as the Jubilee party leader well into the future as a guarantor in our engagement with our political partners,” said Tuju.

The development means President Uhuru will be at the epicenter of every decision made in regard to coalition-building in the coming elections.

Ruto’s team has consistently said the Jubilee party is ‘dead’ after being taken hostage by what the Ruto team terms political brokers

Recently Deputy President William Ruto and his troops have been calling on the president to avoid being tracked into his succession politics.

The second in command also hit out at his boss for trying to impose ODM leader Raila Odinga on Kenyans, telling him that Kenyans will not be forced to elect a state project.

“I want to tell my friend, the president of Kenya, that the people of Kenya rejected a project 20 years ago. There is no way they can elect anybody’s puppet (in August 2022 presidential elections),” Ruto said in Bungoma recently.

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