Amani National Congress leader, Musalia Mudavadi, has called on President Uhuru Kenyatta to respect the opposition and its leadership and stop seeing them as his enemies.
Speaking after opening ANC offices in Nakuru town on Saturday, Mudavadi said that the opposition should be respected just like the government.
He said it was wrong for the government and the president to view the opposition leaders as its enemies something he said is raising political temperatures in the country.
Mudavadi called on President Kenyatta to take time and listen to what the opposition has to say instead of writing them off all the time.
"It cannot be that anytime the opposition speaks the government rubbishes them off and views them like enemies. The president must be ready to listen to the opposition because they have a point in what they are saying instead of rubbishing them off,"said Mudavadi.
"The more the president treats opposition leaders as his enemies the more he divides the nation and that is what is heightening political tensions in the country,"he said.
Mudavadi added that the opposition have a constitutional right of pointing out the ills in the government and asked the government to take that positively.