Deputy President William Ruto's spokesperson David Mugonyi has hit out at Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho, following his recent remarks about the DP.
This comes after Joho associated the DP with corruption, saying his aides had been named in graft scandals and should be investigated.
According to the Standard, Mugonyi described Governor Joho as a politician afflicted by an "inflated ego" and "fragile education", who attacks the deputy president with baseless accusations to raise his political profile across the ODM spectrum.
"Mr Joho has a penchant for attacking the deputy president and a misguided sense of belief that by doing so, he will elevate his fragile education and please his masters in ODM," said Mugonyi.
He challenged the governor to find better avenues of raising his political profile, threatening that the DP would sue anyone who associated him with corruption.