The rivalry between Deputy President William Ruto and ODM leader Raila Odinga is set to intensify in coming days with the two keen to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Once close allies, the two parted ways in 2011 after the much publicised maize scandal, which led to transferring of Ruto from Agriculture to Higher Education ministry before being sacked.
At that time, Ruto, who would later gang up with President Uhuru Kenyatta to form government, had briefly joined UDM party before moving out to URP.
In one afternoon, Raila, then Prime Minister, fiercely exchanged with Dr Ruto, then Eldoret North MP. The two had differed on political parties hopping.
"Mr Speaker, when others go and assemble in Eldoret and say we are Kamatusa, they are beating ethnic drums. Political parties should be driven with ideologies," Raila said.
"I do not know whether the PM was listening to himself because he holds the record of changing political parties. He has changed parties many times," Ruto protested.
"Mr Speaker, the member says I have changed political parties several times. Narc wasn't a political party. Himself has changed parties four times," added Raila.
By then, Kenya was in the hybrid system of government both presidential and parliamentary. Mr Odinga was in charge of government operations.
With 2022 nearing, Odinga's ODM party now wants introduction of parliamentary system of government, a move which is opposed by the DP.
"If not for anything; this video demonstrates the beauty of a parliamentary system. However much you want to dig at your fellow leader, who may be your senior, you have to remain decorous. Claims get responded to. Records get set right away. Politics remain decent," wrote Junet Mohamed.
During the launching of Governor Anyang'Nyong'o's book on Tuesday, Mr Odinga for the first time endorsed parliamentary system of government, arguing that it promotes consociationalism.
“A parliamentary system is viewed as a better way to raise the majority threshold in a country where tribes view each other with suspicion in the race for power,” said Raila.
“Parliamentary system is generally suitable for plural societies; that is societies in which the political landscape is composed of diverse cultural, religious, ethnic, racial and regional interests, and that is what Kenya is,” he said.