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Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has turned to elders to unite the Mt Kenya voting bloc in his favour ahead of the 2027 General Election.
On Saturday, Prof Kindiki met thousands of elders from Mt Kenya East, who endorsed him for the DP seat in next August's poll, even as the Second in Command tasked them with engaging their colleagues from the West on how the vote-rich Mt Kenya region can become one solid bloc.
At the same time, Prof Kindiki called out his predecessor, Rigathi Gachagua, for undermining him and being disrespectful.
“When you hear me addressing you as my brother, it is not because I fear you nor because I love you so much, because you have a lot of disrespect. I am trying to love you, but you have a lot of disrespect. I don't know what kind of human being you are. You disrespect your seniors, juniors and your brother. Now, how can you be the only right man in the whole world? You have to live well with your brothers,” Prof Kindiki said, saying that arrogance saw the former DP pushed out of office.
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“Do not push me to start revealing secrets, the way I tried to help you not to move out of office, but you refused to listen to me.”
Prof Kindiki also had a pointed message to the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and others eyeing the deputy president seat in the 2027 elections, insisting that the seat was not vacant.
“Those who are after a seat should know the position of the Deputy President is not vacant. Someone is already occupying it and he is fully on it on behalf of the people of Kenya,” the DP noted.