Moses Kuria addressing the media in Nyeri on Sunday, January 7. [Photo: Ngunjiri Wambugu]
Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria on Sunday took William Ruto's 2022 politics to Nyeri.
This was after Nyeri Town MP Ngunjiri Wambugu made a long facebook post on Saturday insinuating that the Mt Kenya region owe William Ruto no political debt to pay in 2022.
Kuria has been leading a pro-Ruto 2022 campaign to have him inherit President Uhuru Kenyatta support from the region when the latter retires.
But a few voices have started emerging, contradicting what the region has been promising: to return favour after Ruto stood with Kenyatta for two terms.
Ngunjiri has laughed off Kuria's trip to Nyeri.
"So, this morning I bump into my good friend and colleague Hon Moses Kuria, MP for Gatundu South, outside a church in my Constituency speaking to media, as I walk in. Apparently .. from what he told the media - he had come all the way from Kiambu to Nyeri, to tell us Nyeri folks, that Mt Kenya region is fully behind DP William Ruto for the Presidency in 2022," Ngunjiri said.
Ngunjiri said the region will not 'just vote for Ruto'.
" A team member tells me that voters; especially those from Nyeri Town but including those from across Mt Kenya and everywhere else in the country; are very very smart these days. They know that no-one can ask them to decide who to vote for in 2022, in 2018. They also know that whether I get re-elected in 2022 is fully dependent on how I perform, for them, between now and then," he said.
He added: "Am sure even the Deputy President knows all these things especially as he's been in this game a long time."