President Uhuru Kenyatta would have sacked his deputy William Ruto already had the constitution granted him such powers, political analyst Dismas Mokua has claimed.
As per the current constitution, the president and the deputy are inseparable, which begins at the ballot level, where they run on the same ticket in the presidential race.
Mokua says that if the president had the powers, he would have by now fired the DP, amid an apparent widening rift between the two of them and their allies.
"The Deputy President is lucky that he cannot be fired, if he (the president) had the powers, he would have fired him," he said on KTN News' Inside Politics on Sunday.
About claims that the DP has weakened the president in his (Uhuru) Mt Kenya backyard, he observed that the president cannot be said to have lost the ground in his own region.
According to him, no president can lose grip of their backyard, even after retirement. He suggested that Uhuru remains fully in charge.
"Anybody who claims that President Kenyatta is becoming impotent in his region is reading the wrong tea leaves. There is no way you can have a President Kenyatta being weak in his region, not even after he leaves power," he added.
The 'supremacy battle' in Mt Kenya bore the Kieleweke and Tanga Tanga factions within the Jubilee Party. The kieleweke team is opposed to Ruto's 2022 bid while Tanga Tanga is pro-Ruto's presidency.If Uhuru had the power, he would have sacked Ruto already — Dismas Mokua