President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto at a past Jubilee Party event. Photo/JubileePartyK/Twitter
Machakos Governor Alfred Mutua has denied claims that he is warming up to join Jubilee Party.
Instead, Mutua clarified that he is only aligning himself with President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Mutua who spoke during an interview on Citizen TV's Cheche show on Wednesday praised Uhuru for being a clean leader with the will to fight for the rights of Kenyans but was being pulled down by his coalition partners in the run-up to the 2017 elections.
Mutua insisted that it was the institutionalisation of corruption, inherited from the past governments, that has painted Uhuru as a bad person.
"I am aligning myself with Uhuru Kenyatta and not Jubilee. I know what all the challenges that Uhuru Kenyatta has faced in his government and I know it bothers him as an individual. Uhuru Kenyatta, I believe, is not a corrupt man. He is just overseeing a government that has systems in place that are corrupt and these systems have been inherited from the past governments," he said.
"Even the former PM Raila Odinga during the grand coalition government had scandals under his watch," he added
Mutua called on Kenyans to judge the President as an individual adding that he was committed to helping Kenyans out of their hard economic state.
"When we look at Uhuru Kenyatta we should judge him based on his integrity as an individual. I have had a chat with Uhuru Kenyatta and I believe he is committed," he said.
"Uhuru's government is being headed with factions that come together and I think sometimes he is pinned down by this factions," he added.