A section of leaders from the Gusii have dismissed calls on members of the community to join Jubilee Party.
They said the community cannot back a government riddled with graft.
“We are better off in the opposition than enjoining ourselves to the tainted government,” Kitutu Masaba MP Timothy Bosire said on Wednesday.
The legislator criticized Kisii Senator Chris Obure and County Deputy Governor Joash Maangi for claiming that the community unilaterally supports the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto in the forthcoming elections.
He termed the sentiments by the two as ‘grossly wishful thinking that lacks merit in itself'.
Recently, at the launch of the Jubilee Party membership card in Nairobi, Obure said the community was eager to ditch the opposition.
Bosire said such utterances are ‘personal and not capturing the aspirations of the electorate from the region'.
“Such old KANU style unilateral imaginations have failed before and will fail again. People are wiser now and they know how to make correct decisions on their own,” the ODM National Treasurer said.
The Kitutu Masaba MP said that the community was desperately yearning for a corruption free regime and will not be “sacrificed on the altar of cheap and sterile politics'.
South Mugirango MP Manson Nyamweya, who has also shown interest in governorship dismissed Obure’ statement saying he spoke for himself.
“The Kisii people are solidly in the opposition, the rest are antics,” he said by phone.