A 'tired' Deputy President William Ruto may have after all given up on Mt. Kenya votes, reports the Standard.
This comes after legislators from the region effected President Uhuru Kenyatta's order to keep off the DP's functions and shift their focus on 'service delivery'.
As a strategy to replace the region in his cards, Ruto has now shift focus to ODM strongholds where he hopes for possible support in 2022.
"We are aware of their cards. The region is unreliable and we have since moved on," a legislator from Rift Valley told the Standard.
Some of the regions where the DP will now put focus include Northern Kenya, Coast, Nyanza and Western region.
While the MPs from Mt. Kenya have snubbed the DP in the last two weeks, he too has avoided the region which he has often visited.
At a Church event in Nairobi, Ruto seemed irked with the debate about 'debt' which pundits say Mt. Kenya may not honour by dismissing the matter.
"No Community or people owes me anything. The only debt we owe people is love."
He was even clearer in an interview with NTV when he said he doesn't expect favours from the region even though he supported President Uhuru Kenyatta in a record three elections.
Kikuyu Council of Elders waded into the 2022 succession debate when a section of its members demanded that Ruto retires along with Uhuru.