The more President Uhuru Kenyatta tells Jubilee Party members and leaders to quit speculating about his succession, the more political talk escalates.
Last Thursday, the President threatened to sack Cabinet secretaries involved in politics.
The warning came just a few days after Laikipia woman representative Catherine Waruguru told a public gathering attended by Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri in Nyahururu that the former Grand National Union leader was fit to play kingpin for the Mt Kenya region once President Kenyatta exited the scene.
A day earlier, President Kenyatta’s maternal uncle and a founding trustee of the Democratic Party, Mr George Muhoho, used a funeral platform in Nyeri County to wade into the “handshake” politics that had set the Mt Kenya region alight with succession politics, saying the President had not abandoned his core Jubilee allies after reaching out to Opposition leader Raila Odinga.
In an apparent effort to pacify supporters of Deputy President William Ruto that their man will not be short-changed in the Building Bridges and “Handshake” politics, Mr Muhoho urged calm in the face of proposals to change the Constitution to disperse executive Presidential powers to additional offices.
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Using cryptic Kikuyu and Biblical idioms, he said: “Kaba andu maingihe, nyama inyihe (its better to have more people in a feast than more meat and few people).”
Reaching out to the opposition to look for lost sheep did not mean the President had abandoned the sheep he…
