Jubilee Party Secretary-General Raphael Tuju has dismissed Deputy President William Ruto's assassination claims made earlier in the year.
The DP had claimed that a section of Cabinet Secretaries from the Mt Kenya region was meeting at the La Mada Hotel in Nairobi to plot his said assassination.
However, Tuju on Sunday suggested that this could be just another political stunt, which are common among political players, urging Kenyans not to take it too seriously.
"Kenyans should take these assassination threat claims with a pinch of salt, we are politicians at the end of the day," he said in an interview on K24's Punchline show on Sunday night.
The former Rarieda lawmaker added that the said division among CSs is not in any way affecting operations of the cabinet.
This comes at a time when some CSs have been seen to take sides between Ruto and President Uhuru Kenyatta, among them Interior CS Fred Matiang'i who is seen as pro-Uhuru.
According to Tuju, who also sits in the cabinet as a CS without portfolio, the rivalry is only portrayed in rallies and has not affected the running of the government.
"I sit in Cabinet meetings and those things have never interfered with the running of the government. You only hear those things in funerals and rallies," he noted.
Agriculture CS Mwangi Kiunjuri has also been seen to be more lenient towards the DP.