{"id":27039,"date":"2021-05-03T16:01:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T16:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?p=27039"},"modified":"2021-05-03T15:25:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T15:25:06","slug":"insider-reveals-sabotage-within-rutos-inner-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/insider-reveals-sabotage-within-rutos-inner-circle","title":{"rendered":"Insider Reveals Sabotage Within Ruto&#8217;s Inner Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Former Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri has revealed infighting within the Deputy President William Ruto\u2019s camp in the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an interview on Inooro TV on Sunday evening May 2, Kiunjuri said that the recent meeting between Ruto, Mt Kenya leaders and economic experts turned the politicians against each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are internal wrangles in UDA and recently I heard them accusing each other. Mukami (Nyeri Woman Rep) is accusing Rigathi (Mathira MP) of sidelining her in the meeting while in Nakuru, Kihika (Nakuru Senator) is in trouble for skipping the discussions,\u201d Kiunjuri stated.<\/p>\n<p>He also explained that his decision not to join the UDA party was so that he could have a backup plan in case it collapsed, adding that the Mt Kenya people needed a party to protect their interests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a supporter of the deputy president but I cannot join UDA. I decided to form TSP so that if ever UDA goes up in flames, I will tell my Mt Kenya people that I had foreseen,\u201d Kiunjuri stated, adding that the vote-rich region needs to be united.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that without a common party, Mt Kenya leaders could be ejected from UDA or other parties just as they were chased away from Jubilee.<\/p>\n<p>Kiunjuri is one of the three politicians angling for a running mate position in Ruto\u2019s camp, with his competitors being Rigathi and Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria.<\/p>\n<p>Kuria\u2019s meeting with Baringo Senator Gideon Moi and KANU Secretary General Nick Salat last week left many questions unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>Kuria was also notably absent during the recent meeting with Mt Kenya leaders despite also being an economist.<\/p>\n<p>Like Kiunjuri, the Gatundu MP has established his own political outfit, The People\u2019s Empowerment Party.<\/p>\n<p>Ruto kicked off the meeting on Friday, April 30, with the aim of making inroads into Central Kenya as President Uhuru Kenyatta&#8217;s tenure at the top comes to an end.<\/p>\n<p>The DP promised to build on two fundamental principles he helped Uhuru to create in 2013 including transitioning the country from the shackles of ethnic mobilization to a new paradigm centered on an all-inclusive consensus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. Former Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri has revealed infighting within the Deputy President William Ruto\u2019s camp in the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party. Speaking during an interview on Inooro TV on Sunday evening May 2, Kiunjuri said that the recent meeting between Ruto, Mt Kenya leaders and economic experts turned the politicians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":27038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-27039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Insider Reveals Sabotage Within Ruto&#039;s Inner Circle - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri has revealed infighting within the Deputy President William Ruto\u2019s ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/insider-reveals-sabotage-within-rutos-inner-circle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Insider Reveals Sabotage Within Ruto&#039;s Inner Circle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri has revealed infighting within the Deputy President William Ruto\u2019s ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/insider-reveals-sabotage-within-rutos-inner-circle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-03T16:01:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/05\/img-609015b535fa8.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/insider-reveals-sabotage-within-rutos-inner-circle#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/insider-reveals-sabotage-within-rutos-inner-circle\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Insider Reveals Sabotage Within Ruto&#8217;s Inner Circle\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-03T16:01:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/insider-reveals-sabotage-within-rutos-inner-circle\"},\"wordCount\":369,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/insider-reveals-sabotage-within-rutos-inner-circle#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/05\/img-609015b535fa8.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Kenya\",\"Kenya\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/insider-reveals-sabotage-within-rutos-inner-circle#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/insider-reveals-sabotage-within-rutos-inner-circle\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/insider-reveals-sabotage-within-rutos-inner-circle\",\"name\":\"Insider Reveals Sabotage Within Ruto's Inner Circle - 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