Former Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale is now accusing the media of sabotaging the recently launched Luhya Unity campaign.
Speaking on Radio Citizen's Debe La Citizen Sunday, the ex-lawmaker further claimed that the press is too obsessed with the ongoing merger between Musalia Mudavadi's Amani National Congress (ANC) and the Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula-led Ford Kenya parties, accusing it of painting the unity as an ethnic plot.
He urged the press to keep off the debate, terming it as an outsider who is unaware of the ongoing internal plans, or risk misleading the nation.
''The media should keep off the luhya unity and the ANC-Ford Kenya merger issues as it has resorted to giving out unfounded information about the progress. The issues are better left to insiders who will give the nation the exact outcome at the right time,'' said the Ford Kenya Deputy Party Leader.
He also faulted recent claims from a section of the political elite that the same is a tribal plan aimed at giving several tribal chiefs a bargaining power in the approaching 2022 elections, noting that it is actually for the benefit of the nation.
''Our moves are not ethnically advised. We are just dedicated to give Kenyans a strong front in which they can invest their support and hopes for a better Kenya,'' said Khalwale.