Wiper Party Leader Kalonzo Musyoka has revealed interesting details about that fateful night President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto drove into his Karen Home to ask him to shelf his presidential ambition in his autobiography, against all odds.
"Then on that night, Uhuru and Ruto arrived at my home in the company of Jimmy Wanjigi, a Nairobi businessman and political strategist.
Mr Wanjigi is the son of former Kamukunji Member of Parliament and Moi era Cabinet minister, Maina Wanjigi. We walked down to the gazebo where dinner was to be served," Kalonzo records.
The former Vice President notes that it was on this night that the unexpected was disclosed to him. "Ruto and Jimmy sat silently as Uhuru spoke: 'Stephen', we have decided that you should choose some other position, but not the presidency or deputy presidency." I was stunned. I did not know at what point the arrangement we had earlier, of me being on the presidential ticket, had been changed."
Then Kalonzo says in his book. The Cord co-principal pointed out that tension arose as Uhuru told him that Ngilu would take up his position if he fails to agree with the duo.
"There was silence in the gazebo. As tension rose, Uhuru suddenly stood up, pushed his seat back and stepped out of the sliding glass door. He walked five steps to the waterfall, removed a packet from his jacket pocket and pulled out a cigarette. Holding it in his left hand, he lit it with a lighter in his right hand and furiously puffed on it. Uhuru finished smoking. He threw the smoldering stub on the ground, stumped on it with his left foot and ground it into the green grass," he added.