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Ruto Speaks out After Uhuru Dared Him to Resign

Ruto Speaks out After Uhuru Dared Him to Resign

Deputy President William Ruto has spoken out hours after President Kenyatta dared him to resign for fighting the government from within.

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Uhuru said it was hypocritical for Ruto to claim that the Jubilee government has failed and, at the same time, take credit for its projects.

“On one hand he [Ruto] is saying the government has failed and on the other hand he is saying we as a government has done this and that development. That is doublespeak, you can’t be speaking of the failures of a government where you serve while at the same time outlining what you refer to as we have achieved as a government. You better resign,” Uhuru said in Uthiru on Friday.

In a rejoinder, Ruto appeared to accuse Uhuru of betrayal, noting that he supported and stood with him when he needed a friend in the run-up to the 2013 presidential election.

“When Uhuru needed a friend to stand with him, when no one else wanted to support him because of the ICC cases, or because his father was president, or because he came from Mt. Kenya, I was the one who did,” Ruto said.

Ruto, who spoke in Kiambaa, Kiambu County during a fundraiser to empower boda-boda riders in the region, further insisted that he is the best candidate to succeed President Kenyatta in 2022.

“Because Uhuru is retiring, who is the best person to finish the good work that we began? Is it Ruto of the Kitendawili person?” Ruto posed.

 

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  1. Morris MenyeFeb 12, 2021

    All these elite thugs are the same although muuaji Raila plus his group of cannibals including Kabogo,Joho,Wanjiru,Obado,Kamanda,Murathe etc are worse.I would also wish to inform a WaMuzee with fake name Rogers to forget anything beneficial from his gods,majambazi Kalonzo and Muthama or any of the so-called politicians.The silly fool does not know the elite thugs pretend to be enemies in the public but drink and share what they loot together.

  2. CiroFeb 13, 2021

    Your mama is the killer @ menye! Where did Raila come from here? You are just a mere lad whose dead father never thought you manly manners! You are a very insecure shithead! Useless fool!

  3. Morris MenyeFeb 13, 2021

    Now Ciru,a KOINANGE/MORDEN GREEN/SABINA JOY trader joins other NDONGOMOTHIS in worshiping idols.You are trying to sell that sewage smelling hole of yours to the wrong person.

  4. Settled NomadFeb 14, 2021

    Ciro, your responses reek of Koinange street and Sabina Joy. The sewer hole sellers there also cannot control their mouths the same way that you cannot control yours, which makes me believe that it is probably from experience. The sewer line is not worth as much as you seem to believe. Men can live without it.

  5. MargrerFeb 13, 2021

    So now Ruto is talking about the good work “they began” because he wants to succeed ?

    But in other times he is speaking of the failings of the jubilee government!

    Uhuru has never needed Ruto as a friend; as a matter of fact, Ruto has never been a friend to Uhuru!

    Ruto has conveniently held on Uhuru’s coat tails to get to where he is now. He is one undermining DP to Uhuru! This idiot should be forced to resign!!

  6. Settled NomadFeb 13, 2021

    I think that Uhuru is winning Ruto sympathy votes. Everyone in Kenya steals. It just depends on how you steal, and if it is officially recognized as theft. Bribing MCAs with shs2m each using tax payers money to pass BBI is also theft of public funds.

  7. Morris MenyeFeb 13, 2021

    NYANI HAJIONI KUDULE HULIONA LA MWENZIE.I wish Uhuru also spoke on how he shared the 2016 -shs 200b.EUROBOND & 2020/21-shs 78b COVID loan loots.He should have told the loanpayers/taxpayers the law that gives him,his family,his adulterer comrade-Mumbi,Raila,Wanjigi,Murathe,Ngilu,Jirongo etc impunity to loot.Which law gives thug Uhuru permission to pay all 416 MPs/senators shs 7m each bribe to pass the BBI in two weeks time?

  8. MaituFeb 13, 2021

    We are not forgetting that Ruto has been the mastermind in the Rift Valley Tribal clashes all these years... at around/ after elections... and his madoadoa propaganda.

  9. BuilderFeb 14, 2021

    From commander in chief to whiner in chief acting like a baby president. Raila was your problem but now Ruto is your new problem. Grow up mr president and just work like kibaki used to do. You cannot and shall not manage succession. You are so easily distracted like someone needing adderall.

  10. AsistaFeb 14, 2021

    Uhuru is in campaign mode. He is running against William Ruto. If Uhuru wasn’t photo benefit out of BBI, he won’t be campaigning as he is. Uhuru stated strategizing for his return immediately after his second term reelection. That’s when he formed a coalition with the opposition party Handshake. He even fired most of Ruto affiliated party members from senate and parliamentary committee chairs and awarded his new found party of Handshake.
    It’s shameful for a person of the President to be going out and talking or discussing people instead country.

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