Sometimes back in 2002 after KANU's massive loss to retired President Mwai Kibaki, then Eldoret North MP William Ruto summoned President Uhuru Kenyatta to State House to write a concession speech, recalls Lee Njori.
With Narc coalition suspecting a possible resistance from Daniel Moi's whose handipicked Uhuru had lost miserably, Moi had no intentions after all to remain in power.
" Moi had started planning for his retire early. He never had intentions of refusing to handover," Lee, a long serving aide to Moi, said in an interview.
He added: " After the loss, he directed Ruto to summon Uhuru to State House to concede defeat."
Years later, Ruto revealed the tense morning when he helped Uhuru to write a conceding defeat.
According to the DP, most State House workers had ran away, leaving behind only Uhuru, Moi and himself.
" Nobody is interested to cling to power. Sometimes back, Uhuru and myself were abandoned in this room when KANU lost. We write a concession speech," he said, days to 2017 polls.
As fate would decide, the two would sit in the same room a decade later to draft victory speech as President and deputy ahead of their inauguration in 2013.