President Uhuru Kenyatta’s allies from Central will this Saturday hold crucial talks even as DP William Ruto plans to storm the region for a series of rallies.
Ruto’s Sunday tour of Murang’a county is the first since falling out with his boss and being shoved from the heart of government operations.
Curiously, Ruto will be sneaking into the President’s ‘bedroom’ when the head of state is out of the country on a state visit to France.
“Ruto wants to sneak into the bedroom because he knows the boss is not around,” Nyeri Town MP Ngunjiri Wambugu said.
Sonko News has established that a section of the President’s allies will converge at a hotel in Murang’a on Saturday in what has been couched as a development session.
This would be the second meeting by Central Kenya leaders that gets under way in just a month in what appears to be a deliberate strategy to chart the post-Uhuru political future of the region.
“Mheshimiwa, kindly note that a meeting of political leaders from Central Kenya has been convened this Saturday, October 3, 2020 at Thika Greens Hotel from 10:00am to discuss the progress of various development projects being undertaken across the region,” reads an invite sent out to leaders.
The initial meeting was held on September 18 and brought together nearly 50 lawmakers from the region, with details emerging that they resolved to field a presidential candidate in 2022.
On Thursday, about 35 MPs and senators from Central held a lunch meeting at a Nairobi hotel in what appeared to be a preparatory session ahead of the upcoming consultation meeting.
Among those who attended the meeting were Senate Majority whip Irungu Kang’ata and his National Assembly counterpart Maoka Maore, Kiambu Senator Kimani Wamatangi and Laikipia Woman Rep Catherine Waruguru.
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During Thursday’s session, Kang’ata and Maore took the lawmakers through the government’s plans for the region especially to address cash crops and infrastructure needs, among them roads.
The Murang’a senator reportedly told the MPs to be patient and wait for the President’s direction on 2022 succession politics.
The meeting came as Ruto prepared to storm the President’s turf on Sunday for a series of rallies after attending church services.
The DP will be a guest at a church function in his close ally Alice Wahome’s Kandara constituency, Murang’a county.
After the church event, Ruto who is keen to maintain the grip on Mt Kenya in the wake of his fallout with the President will address a series of rallies in the constituency.
