Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen has come out guns blazing to condemn a section of politicians from Mount Kenya who has grouped to 'defend President Uhuru Kenyatta and stop early campaigns'.
Led by nominated Member of Parliament Maina Kamanda, the leaders have formed Mt Kenya and Diaspora Leadership Caucus which is aimed at curbing alleged rebellion against Uhuru within Jubilee Party.
The veteran politician told the Nation on Tuesday they have come together to tame 'Tanga Tanga Movement', a group associated with Deputy President William Ruto, which he claimed has ignored the President's warning against early campaigns.
"We now have a group that the President can rely on as his directives on premature campaigns have fallen on deaf years. Some of the MPs have been consumed by 2022 politics to the extent of insulting older politicians who have seen it all in politics," the former Starehe MP said.
"We shall go around the country reminding the people that President Kenyatta's term is not yet over and urging leaders to respect him and we shall be naming them," he added.
Reacting to the reports, Murkomen, a close ally of the DP, accused the politicians from Uhuru's backyard of a plot to sabotage Ruto's 2022 presidential bid by gagging him.
The Elgeyo-Marakwet Senator castigated the leaders of playing cheap politics by attacking the DP unnecessarily and at the same time expecting him not to respond to their claims.
"Most of the people telling us to stop the politics of 2022 actually mean to stop Dr Ruto. Actually, the others are busy going around attacking Dr Ruto and he is not supposed to respond at all. We too won’t make a rejoinder!" Murkomen tweeted on Tuesday.
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