The Kalenjin council of elders have reached out to their Central counterparts in the Jubilee coalition to be bold enough and tell them the truth about their allegiance to Deputy President William Ruto.
Led by council chairman James Lukwo, the elders on Wednesday said that their Kikuyu counterparts had given a remark whose understanding they could not understand.
This comes after a statement from Central said that Deputy President William Ruto should stay away from President Uhuru Kenyatta during the 2017 campaigns.
The Kikuyu council has proposed that Ruto holds his campaigns separately as will the president.
But elders from the Rift Valley have termed the move malicious with an ill motive of destroying Deputy President William Ruto’s 2022 presidential bid after the 2017 general elections are won.
"As a community, we feel there is a lot of hypocrisy in the statement. We ask leaders from Central to come out clearly on this matter," said Lukwo.
"We want to know if they have decided to dump us. They should declare their stand early. As elders, we don’t want a repeat of 2007/8 skirmishes," he further said.
On the fears that Ruto was using unorthodox means during campaigns, he said that whatever Ruto was doing was for the good of the party and that in no case was he trying to outshine his master.
"He is not campaigning for his personal interest. We are dismayed by the statements made by some Central Kenya leaders," said Lukwo.
"They should be man enough and tell us if they will support our son in 2022… Those elders should not start confusing us. We shall rally behind the two leaders (Uhuru, Ruto) but our counterparts should tell us what is going on," he added.