Deputy President William Ruto has warned the opposition of a terrible defeat in the approaching 2022 general elections.
Speaking in Malinya, Kakamega on Friday, the DP urged the opposition parties to merge into a single party to equal the ruling Jubilee Party where he is the deputy party leader.
Failure to this, he warned, the team will face an even worse defeat, far more humiliating than the one Jubilee subjected it to in the 2017 general election.
“I urge opposition parties to fold into a single political outfit that has a national outlook to compete at the same level with us, or else they will be out for a rude shock. Jubilee will give them a more thorough beating in 2022,” said the DP.
He spoke after receiving former area senator Boni Khalwale from Ford Kenya, one of the largest opposition blocks.
Ruto also fired shots at Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga whom he accused of interfering Jubilee affairs.
“Why would he be concerned with a deal reached between me and President Uhuru Kenyatta?” he posed.
The DP was responding to the former Prime Minister's remarks last weekend, where he told the DP not to bank on his deal with President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2013, where Uhuru was to reportedly endorse him as his successor.
ODM and Ford Kenya teamed up with the Wiper Democratic Movement (WDM) and Amani National Congress (ANC) to form the National Super Alliance (NASA) which lost to Uhuru.