Former UDA Chairperson Johnson Muthama has broken his silence on political debates going on in the country, throwing jabs at the current opposition leaders.
Muthama, currently a Commissioner of the Parliamentary Service Commission, has been quiet for some time. The former Machakos Senator dismissed the United Opposition efforts suggesting they were headed nowhere.
“There is one who is moving faster than the other opposition leaders and is giving conditions for his support.
“He says he will support you to be president but gives conditions and goes ahead to announce in public that he can only rally behind you on the understanding that some seats like that of governor, senate, women representative and several parliamentary seats will be left for his party,” said Muthama in a veiled reference to former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and Wiper Patriotic Front leader Kalonzo Musyoka.
SEATS TAKEN
He added: “Who is that foolish Kenyan who will go to the ballot knowing too well that all the seats have been taken?”
“If you pray for Kalonzo pray that he gets saved but also be wise. The issue now is not asking for votes but to intercede for Kalonzo to change. Kenya is big and it’s not just the Kikuyu vote that can make him the president of this country. It’s the Kenyan votes. When we voted for Kenyatta we did it as Kenyans. I am proud to say that I voted for Kenyatta who was voted by Kenyans and not the Kikuyu community,” Muthama said.
Similarly, he said Moi was not voted by the Kalenjin community but by Kenyans and so was President Kibaki. Uhuru Kenyatta too was elected by Kenyans and not Kikuyus.
“I was with Raila Odinga and when Uhuru won the presidency it was not a tribal thing. Even President Ruto never went around talking about his Kalenjin community. Rigathi is a political novice and that’s why he goes round talking about Kikuyus and other tribes,” said Muthama.
ETHNIC PROFILING
He said people from every part of the country must be able to go to any part and feel Kenyan.
“We must forget ethnic profiling and I want to tell my brother Kalonzo to seek spiritual guidance to see and understand that the seat of the president is not tribal and even if you lose it should be in dignity. We cannot all be winners,” said Muthama.
Gachagua was quoted saying that he had spoken to the Wiper leader and agreed that all the plum seats in Nairobi be reserved for his DCP candidates.
