Kibra MP Ken Okoth has dismissed news doing rounds that he has ditched the ODM party.
According to the news circulating on social media, Okoth has reportedly defected from Raila Odinga's ODM to join Kalonzo Musyoka's Wiper party.
The basis of Okoth's said defection is not known although he allegedly stated that he couldn't "go into nomination with @RailaOdinga 's daughter."
In a statement published by Kenya-Today, Okoth however dismissed the news as mere propaganda orchestrated by his opponents to bring him down.
"May I state it here categorically that those are false allegations fabricated by my competitors in the ODM nominations race. They are so scared to face me in content, substance, depth, intellect and experience that they have thus resorted to medieval propaganda tactics which seem to be a basis of their manifesto," he said.
"On the contrary, just like mud merchants they are, they can continue listing their online hirelings in this wicked assignment to spread malice—they believe in their moments of mischief that they can fool the people of Kibra," Okoth added.
He reiterated that he was in ODM to stay as a life member and that he would join no other party.
"Let it be on RECORD that I am in ODM, I am a life member and I have already paid my nomination fees which means am going all the way to the nominations. I just encourage them to raise the bar than be sources of FAKE NEWS. Fake news is not and will never be a solution to the issues facing women, youths and children of Kibra," he concluded and asked the electorate to ignore the source of the news.