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President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House, Nairobi. [PSCU]
With only 472 days to next year’s General Election, political players are increasingly entertaining debate on the possibility of a delayed poll.
This is largely informed by a congested calendar of political and legal activities ahead of the polls, scheduled for Tuesday, August 9, 2022.
Alive to the sensitivity of the subject and technicalities involved, parliamentary leadership is however cautious.
“It will be good if we can do that (delay the polls), at least for smooth execution of parliamentary tasks at hand. But again, our hands are tied on this,” Senate Majority Leader Samuel Poghisio told
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Kenya is witnessing unprecedented times as President Uhuru Kenyatta openly slides into a naked war of words with his own Deputy, William Ruto. President Uhuru wants the country’s constitution amended but his deputy disagrees saying it is a waste of time and money and that Kenyans don’t need it because there is nothing to benefit.
Two camps have since emerged; Uhuru is traversing the country to popularise the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) while Ruto is combing through the country rallying his supporters to reject this constution amendment initiative. Recently, Ruto travelled to Uhuru’s stronghold Mt. Kenya region to decampaign the BBI initiative.
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Wainaina Ndung u |
January 31st 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Uhuru meets delegates from Mt Kenya Region at Sagana State Lodge in Nyeri. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]
President Uhuru Kenyatta has laid bare the extent of his fallout with his deputy William Ruto over the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI).
In one of his most honest hard tackles on his estranged deputy, the president accused Ruto of trying to get into his Mt Kenya backyard “through the back door instead of using the front door if he is genuine on the plight of the local people”.
Uhuru further said he had not entered into a political pact with anyone ahead of 2022, adding it was the voters who have the ultimate decision on who would be president.
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Senate Chief Whip Irungu Kangáta at his office in Nairobi. [File, Standard]
A three-hour meeting was held on Tuesday evening to convince Senate Majority Whip Irungu Kangáta to publicly recant a letter to President Uhuru Kenyatta on BBI fortunes in Mt Kenya region, The Standard has established.
The meeting came hours before a press conference by Jubilee Secretary General Raphael Tuju at the party’s headquarters in Pangani, Nairobi, yesterday, where the party announced it would not field candidates in three by-elections scheduled for March.
Mr Kangáta had been invited for the Tuesday meeting by some senior government officials and the parliamentary leadership, led by Senate Majority Leader Samuel Poghisio, his National Assembly counterpart Amos Kimunya, Mr Tuju and Senate Deputy Minority Leader and Isiolo Senator Fatuma Dullo.