Two Cord leaders from Nyamira County have vehemently denied claims that they quit the coalition for the ruling Jubilee.
This comes after heated debate among coalition supporters who took them head-on on social media to call for disciplinary actions from their respective party.
In separate interviews, Senator Okong’o Mong’are and North Mugirango MP Charles Geni dismissed the defection reports, terming them as misleading.
“I was elected on Ford Kenya which is in Cord and I still serve my party. The mere fact that I announced during President Uhuru Kenyatta’s visit that we will be working together doesn’t mean that I defected to government,” Okong’o said.
“It’s all about working together and nothing more than that. We have to distinguish politics and development. I am in Cord to stay because that is where I belong,” he added.
Geni on his part insisted that his working relationship with Jubilee was ‘mutual’, saying that he was a life member of ODM and blamed supporters of crucifying him unnecessarily.
“I think the reports of defection are misleading. My working relationship with the government is of mutual benefit for the sake of my people. I am a life member of ODM and nothing will change that,” he said during Monday’s interview.
The two, alongside West Mugirango West Mugirango MP James Gesami and Borabu’s Ben Momanyi, had pledged to work with Jubilee government when President Uhuru visited the region recently.