Imenti North Member of Parliament Rahim Dawood has poked holes into Deputy President William Ruto's claims regarding the La Mada Hotel meetings.
The DP has since claimed that the meetings, allegedly convened by top state officials from Mt Kenya region, were held with the intention of plotting on how to assassinate him.
However, Dawood has laughed off the claims, saying that it would have been impossible to plot against the DP yet his own allies were also in attendance in the 'development' meetings.
Speaking in Meru on Saturday, he insisted that the deliberations were solely based on development in the Mt Kenya region and did not revolve around a specific figure.
"Most of the MPs from 10 counties in Mt Kenya attended meetings in Nyeri, Naivasha and La Mada, and there is no time that we discussed DP Ruto since his followers were also there. It is not a crime for Mt Kenya leaders to meet over development," he said.
He further defended Trade Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya who is carrying most of the blame, alongside three other CS's arguing that he doesn't harbour any ill intentions against the DP.
According to Dawood, if Munya never plotted anything of the sort when he was the Governor of Meru, then he has no capacity or reason to do it now.
“Even when he was governor and we were rivals, he never wished me any harm yet he had immense powers. How will he harm the DP? Mr Munya was proposed by President Kenyatta to coordinate the Mt Kenya region,” he added.
Munya, and his counterparts Joe Mucheru (ICT), Sicily Kariuki (Health), James Macharia (Transport), and Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho have denied plotting the same.