A section of Nairobi MPs has demanded that Deputy President William Ruto stop imposing Eugene Wamalwa on them.
This comes days after four MPs from Central endorsed the Water CS as the Jubilee candidate for Nairobi governor on Sunday.
Jubilee MPs in Nairobi have demanded that President Uhuru Kenyatta "stop" the DP from interfering with the city’s politics according to The Star.
On Tuesday, Uhuru was to meet some Nairobi leaders to discuss the issue that has caused such discomfort in Jubilee. Some leaders, including the Kikuyu Council of Elders, have protested and dismissed the endorsement according to the publication.
The paper says that Uhuru spoke with Ruto about the issue two days ago as he (Uhuru) is not happy with the turn of events.
On Monday, Starehe MP Maina Kamanda led a group of his counterparts from the city and confronted Ruto at his office demanding to know why he was endorsing an “outsider”.
They accused Ruto of engineering the move by the four Mt Kenya MPs Kabete’s Ferdinand Waititu, Kieni’s Kanini Kega, Jude Njomo from Kiambu and Tigania East’s Mpuru Aburi to endorse Wamalwa as Jubilee’s candidate for Nairobi in 2017.
The Kamanda-led brigade told Ruto they believed he was behind the pronouncement and complained against his antagonising other candidates by pushing central MPs to publicly declare Wamalwa the party’s preferred candidate according to The Star.
“He was told that if this continues, the Kikuyus in Nairobi will consider their position, especially after next elections. He was also reminded that it is he who will need the community after the 2017 elections and not the other way round,” a politician present at the meeting said.
Reportedly, Ruto denied the scheme to endorse Wamalwa accusing some people of just throwing around his name.
The report says that former cabinet ministers Musikari Kombo and Fred Gumo are the ones engineering the push.
Nominated MP Johnson Sakaja, Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko, Dagoretti South MP Dennis Waweru, former Starehe MP Margaret Wanjiru and Raila Odinga's former advisor Miguna Miguna have all expressed interest in unseating the incumbent Evans Kidero.