Former TNA secretary general Onyango Oloo now claims that State House tried to convince him to rethink his decision to ditch the Jubilee party.
Speaking on a vernacular radio station on Friday, Oloo claimed that State House made calls, promising him an "undisclosed big appointment", to block his Wednesday defection to the Raila Odinga ODM-led party.
“I received several phone calls from State House imploring me not to defect, but I told them I had made up my mind. They even tried to entice me with [an] undisclosed big appointment, which I declined,” said Oloo as quoted by the Nation.
Oloo also dismissed Devolution CS, Mwangi Kiunjuri claims that he was running away from a corruption scandal saying if he wanted protection from anything, he would have opted to stay in Jubilee even if deployed as a sweeper.
“If you have a scandal, do you run to the government for protection or you move out of the government?” he asked
“If this is the [practice] by Jubilee that your scandals are only unmasked when you leave them, then how many scandals do we have in Jubilee that are still hidden under the carpet? If I were a thief, I would not have moved from the government even if I was made a sweeper,” he added.