Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka’s political relationship with Kitui Governor Charity Ngilu has never been rosy the way it is now.
The two top Kamba politicians were once political enemies who could not see eye to eye.
It is in the run-up to last 2017's general election that Kalonzo and Ngilu buried their political hatchet.
Ngilu reconciled with Kalonzo as she eyed the Kitui gubernatorial seat in last year’s polls.
Political analysts argue that the governor reconciled with the former Vice President to increase her chances of winning the seat.
“It would have been difficult for Ngilu to win the Kitui gubernatorial seat if she had continued to wrangle with Kalonzo,” a political pundit Peter Ngure said.
Ngilu’s wars with Kalonzo was made evident when she declined to support the then Coalition for Reforms and Democracy presidential candidate Raila Odinga.
Ngilu instead campaigned for President Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidential bid on Jubilee ticket.
The now governor had contested for the Kitui senate seat in 2017 on Jubilee ticket losing miserably to former senator David Musila.
“I must say I am sorry that I have not supported Kalonzo in the past. I’m sorry I wasted chances and divided the Kamba community, but I’m now in and fully behind him," Ngilu said when she reconciled with Kalonzo before the 2017's general election.
Ngilu was later named the Lands Cabinet Minister in President Uhuru Kenyatta's government in 2013.
However, she was sacked over alleged corruption in 2015 when she officially joined the opposition.
Since then, the governor has been a critic of Jubilee government.
However, in the recent days, Ngilu has been seen as warming back to President Kenyatta who she has praised as a development-oriented leader.