Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen has withdrawn his recent remark insinuating a division within the ruling Jubilee Party.
In an interview on Citizen Television Sunday, the Senate Majority Leader claimed that plans are on course by one faction of the party to create a fallout between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto.
However, speaking on Wednesday night after a Rift Valley leaders meeting in a Nairobi Hotel, the lawmaker who had earlier claimed that the force was so strong that it was almost succeeding, in a turn of events, claimed that the party is strongly together.
He further noted never at any point naming any individual in the scheme, which he said is engineered by powerful individuals surrounding the President and is aimed at preventing Ruto from achieving his 2022 bid to succeed Uhuru.
"I did not mention that the people trying to break the party are specifically Jubilee members, neither did I mention their positions. What I said is that there were some few bad elements trying to bring trouble into Jubilee," he said.
"Jubilee is not broken, we are very much united in the party," added the vocal leader who initially also blamed the said individuals for the proposed lifestyle audit, which he said is secretly aimed at politically victimizing Ruto.
The plan, he said, was to soil Ruto's integrity record in a bid to demonise him before the electorate ahead of 2022.