Ex-Prime Minister Raila Odinga has accused Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula of 'unnecessarily' dragging his name to his unprecedented ouster.
In an explosive interview with the Daily Nation, Wetangula insisted that Raila plotted for his ouster by summoning ODM senators to a secret meeting.
"I am quite aware of meetings he held secretly to remove me from Senate Minority leadership. I have nothing against him and I have since moved on," he said.
But through his spokesperson Dennis Onyango, Raila has dismissed Wetangula's sentiments as personal vendetta and urged him to say the truth.
According to Odinga, he had no interest to orchestrate Wetangula's removal thus his decision to ask CEO Norman Magaya to write to the Senate speaker to retain him.
"Wetangula knows facts as they are. He was rejected by senators from all NASA parties and not only ODM. No senator has complained about his removal," he said.
The statement further stated: "Efforts by Wetangula to avoid the facts and blame Odinga therefore point to personal vendetta and refusal to face and deal with facts."
Even though Wetangula says Odinga failed to defend him, the statement adds, senators had accused him in his presence of being aloof, selfish and arrogant.
Further, he says, "Wetangula's sentiments are dishonest, frivolous and evasive. They are not meant to whip emotions and sympathy over problems of his own making."
Last month, senators de-whipped Wetangula as Minority Leader by replacing him him Senator James Orengo.
Since then, the senator has been holding meetings across the populous Western belt, castigating Odinga of his woes.