A section of Mount Kenya leaders have maintained that they will not be coerced into supporting a particular candidate.
As President Kenyatta succession politics gains momentum, some leaders from the Mt. Kenya region are still divided but National Assembly speaker Justin Muturi who a few months ago was installed as Mount Kenya region spokesman maintains that it is the people of the region who will decide the chosen one.
Mt Kenya East elected and grassroots joined the elders from the Meru’s Njuri Ncheke Council, Embu’s Nyaangi Ndiriri, and Ngome from Muturi’s Mbeere backyard and Kikuyu Council of Elders all threw their weight behind Speaker JB Muturi’s bid for the Presidency, 2022.
“All I want to say is, every Kenyan has a constitutional right to vie for any political office in this country. Let’s stop the intimidation of our people. You can intimidate some people but you cannot intimidate all these people. This threatening people with opening files and investigations should stop. They can go ahead and write all they want. I stand with the leaders who are being intimidated for supporting me,” said Speaker JB Muturi.
“I JB Muturi hereby declare my candidature for the position of the President of the Republic of Kenya come 2022. Very soon I will also declare the party on which I will be running soon. Join me on this journey of bringing back integrity to Kenya,” said Speaker JB Muturi.
Leaders from the region are pushing to have the region vote as one united block in 2022, presidential election. Even as the rift between Mount Kenya East and West continues to widen.
We have seen a trend even where leaders speak really bad things against each other. I think those are old politics. Right now, everybody’s free to come and sell the ideas and what do you want to do for their people, and the people will decide,” said Sabina Chege.
Kimemia who doubles up as the chairman of the central region economic Block claims most of the top political leaders seeking support from the region have no interests in the region at heart.
For a while now, Deputy President William Ruto has been making inroads in the Mt. Kenya region to consolidate his support base. A region deemed to be the political backyard of his boss President Kenyatta.
