Deputy President William Ruto's allies have made a dramatic u-turn on Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report popularization tours across the country.
Led by Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen, the leaders on Tuesday vowed to attend all the meeting to popularize the report.
They said that they will join their colleagues in Mombasa for the meeting after weeks of protesting against the same.
"We will be participating in all public BBI rallies across the country and this weekend we will be in Mombasa together with the BBI team," Murkomen told a press conference in Nairobi. said.
He also warned leaders from different political quarters against politicizing the BBI campaigns ahead of 2022 saying that the interest of Kenyans should be made paramount than the leaders' political ambition.
“To our utter disappointment, at recent public rallies in Kisii and Kakamega leaders resorted to the very callous tactics rejected by the BBI report, backsliding into the reviled old order that Kenyans are running away from,” he said.
Other leaders who were present during the press conference include Alice Wahome (Kandara MP), Moses Kuria (Gatundu South MP) and Susan Kihika (Nakuru Senator)
On Sunday, Ruto lamented that the BBI meetings are being used to blackmail him.
He said that the Bukhungu Stadium meeting in Kakamega was used to paint him in bad faith.
The second in command warned leaders allied to ODM leader Raila Amolo Odinga against insulting him for no good reason.
"I saw yesterday insults formed half of the meeting, there was less mention of BBI than mention of Ruto and his home in Sugoi," Ruto said.
The DP has been opposed to the BBI meetings, while terming them a waste of money. He has been lamenting that the resources being used on the meetings can be channelled elsewhere.