It has emerged that former President Mwai Kibaki was part of the problem during the push for the second liberation, against former President Daniel Moi's regime.
Moi's leadership was accused of plunging the nation into a single-party system, which a number of politicians attempted to fight against for years, before an ultimate win.
Koigi Wa Wamwere, one of the fighters, now says that Kibaki, though he later became president, was a single-party sympathizer, who had close links with the Nyayo regime.
This, however, passed the eye of many Kenyans, who considered him different, given that he is the one who crushed Moi's leadership and managed to uproot KANU in 2002.
Koigi says that previously, he even mocked people trying to criticize the government, at some point likening them to madmen trying to achieve the unachievable.
"Kibaki was not a democracy fighter, he was fighting democracy. I remember he once said that those fighting KANU are market madmen trying to cut down a fig tree using a razor (Kibaki hakuwa mpiganiaji wa demokrasia, alikuwa anapinga demokrasia. Nakumbuka wakati mmoja akisema anayetaka kupinga KANU ni mwendawazimu wa soko anayetaka kukata mti wa mugumo kwa wembe)," he said on Monday.
Wamwere, a former Subukia Member of Parliament, was speaking on Radio Sauti Ya Mwananchi.
Therefore, he noted, Kibaki only managed to survive the elections because Kenyans had some faith in him, in a poll where he won with a wide margin, beating President Uhuru Kenyatta.
"He was elected because Kenyans had faith in him (Alichaguliwa kwa sababu wakenya walikuwa na amani nayeye)," he added.
In the poll, the retiring Moi threw his weight behind the then youthful Uhuru, after Koigi and other second liberation fighters had successfully enbaled for the formation of many parties.