Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU) Secretary-General Francis Atwoli has warned Amani National Congress (ANC) party leader Musalia Mudavadi against joining Deputy President William Ruto's camp.
Atwoli claimed the DP has been treating the ANC boss with contempt and wondered what he has seen in him now that he was wooing him to back his 2022 presidential bid.
The COTU boss, who three years ago named Mudavadi as the spokesperson of the Luhya community, said it would be foolish for the former Vice President to abandon his presidential ambition and rally behind the DP.
"Ruto has belittled Mudavadi for a long time and equated him to a white ant. It will be very foolish for anyone in Mudavadi's camp to think or advice for an alignment with Ruto," Atwoli said as quoted by Daily Nation, Monday.
Expressing similar sentiments, Saboti MP Alfred Agoi asked his party leader to dismiss Ruto's invitation to his camp and focus on his bid to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta.
"We urge Mudavadi to be ready to be on the presidential ballot in 2022. We will not accept someone who brings us peanuts for development in Vihiga, and when he goes to his backyard he opens a Sh3 billion factory," Agoi said in reference to Ruto's Saturday's visit in Sabatia, Vihiga County.
During a fundraiser for a women’s empowerment project in Sabatia, the DP exuded confidence in becoming Kenya's next President and asked the ANC boss to join the 'winning team'.
"I am calling on Mudavadi to join this team so that we can form the government. I was here in Sabatia for the last time in 2007 and campaigned for Raila and Musalia. We did not make it at the time. I was their errand boy at the time," Ruto said.