A week ago, Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria during a church function in Imenti South, Meru County named six Mt Kenya leaders whom he said were key to bringing together two rival Jubilee Party camps.

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According to Kuria, the ensuing acrimony between teams 'tangatanga' and 'Kitaeleweka' which support and oppose DP William Ruto's 2022 presidential bid respectively, threatens the region's interests big time.

"If the current status quo remains, we will be eaten from the pocket like peanuts. Eventually, we will be left alone stranded after giving out both the bread and the bakery," Kuria said in a video shared on social media.

The controversial MP would continue to propagate the same narrative on Sunday in Kirinyaga County still using the church altar, saying that Mt Kenya politicians were already holding discussions on who among them to pick as a presidential candidate come 2022 general election.

“We are deliberating on how to have our own to become the next president,” Kuria said at St Thomas Anglican Cathedral.

So, with all this kind of talk coming from the Gatundu South legislator, should Kuria be taken seriously?

Here is why the latter's statement holds more water than the former.

1. He has declared interest in 2022

When Kuria for instance, talks about the so-called 'Kitaeleweka' or 'Tangatanga' unity, it requires one no rocket science to deduce that he could be seeking to benefit from the resulting unity of the two rival camps.

In short, he is seeking to benefit himself from this unity more than the region's GEMA communities he is purporting to help or represent.

2. Regional bigotry

“We are not going to let the presidency go, we cannot give out the loaves of bread and the bakery at the same time,” Kuria is quoted by Nation as saying at St Thomas Anglican Cathedral, Kirinyaga on Sunday.

If the above statement does not help you see the MP as someone who is hellbent on propagating regional and tribal hegemony, then I don't know which other statements can help you read between lines.

3. Divisive

When the MP says that Mt Kenya leaders are already deliberating on how to form their own political party that they will use as a vehicle to State House when knowing that he was sponsored to Parliament by a party that has led us to believe that it stands for national unity, then either of the two, the party or Kuria, is fooling us.

I beg to opine that the latter is likely to be the one leading us along this path.