NASA co-principals Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi and Raila Odinga in Nairobi on Tuesday. [PHOTO/the-star.co.ke]
Head of NASA presidential campaigns Musalia Mudavadi has warned that President Uhuru Kenyatta is plotting to remove the two-term limit for the presidency.
Mudavadi hit out at the president, saying that such attempts at amending the Constitution would take Kenya back in the journey of democracy taken since Independence.
“The outrageous remarks by President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday [Monday] betray a streak of authoritarianism that would only happen in Kenya under an imperial presidency,” Mudavadi said.
He added: “Only in bygone days of Emperor Jean Baptiste Bokassa of the Central Africa Republic or under the dictatorship of Nguema of Equatorial Guinea would such a display of hubris be seen in the President’s daily summon.”
He warned that Kenyans must be very “worried that a person holding incumbency as caretaker of the presidency and is seeking reconfirmation to the position holds the same office in utter contempt”.
“And he does it wantonly and with extreme prejudice,” he said.