President Uhuru Kenyatta's remarks over his role in impending 2022 race could have scared deputy President William Ruto.
On Friday, a day after Uhuru scolded Mt Kenya MPs over what he called 'loitering and politicking', Ruto cancelled a planned attendance at Karatina University graduation under unclear circumstances.
Uhuru said: "Kenya did two elections in one year and people are tired with politics. What they want now is service delivery."
He added: “Those who think that I will have nothing to say in 2022 will be shocked; if people are only politicking and not working they will go home.”
And at West Pokot on Saturday, Ruto seemed to go slow on succession politics, online reading from the president's scripture.
Lately, Ruto has been traversing the country on the pretext of development, a move that has not gone down well with State House mandarins.
“We finished doing politics last year. It is now time to embark on development. We don’t want leaders to engage in divisive politics,” a toned down Ruto said.
Cherangany MP Jushua Kutuny on Sunday said the President's remarks should be a bother to the DP's camp, adding that all is not well.
His statement comes even as it emerged that Ruto has reached out to former Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto for possible partnership in CCM party should his plan to run on Jubilee fail.
"You can’t take the President’s remarks lightly. They mean a lot, especially when they come at a time when Kenyans are aware there was an obvious political deal for 2022. The DP should know that the master is not happy," Kutuny said.
Early this year, a rather agitated Uhuru referred to Ruto as 'kijana ya kutangatanga', remarks which did not go down well with Ruto's lieutenants led by Kipchumba Murkomen.
For the first time in as many months, both in West Pokot on Saturday and Sunday tour in Migori, Ruto did not mention anything to do with 2022 politics.
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