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Ruto Says He Nearly Slapped Uhuru After Court Invalidated The 2017 General Elections

SK 2 years ago 2 min read

Deputy President William Ruto acknowledged that he nearly struck President Uhuru Kenyatta after the Supreme Court invalidated the 2017 general election.

According to Ruto, Uhuru was so furious over the choice that he nearly chose to give up and drop out of the contest in favor of going back to his home in Ichaweri.

This is according to an audio file that The Nation received from a gathering of Kikuyu elders and Ruto that took place on Friday, July 1, in his Karen home.

When his supervisor intimated that he wouldn’t run in the 2017 rerun elections during his speech to the elders, Ruto said that he nearly struck his boss.

“‘We should give up on this,‘ the President adds,’ Adding that he does not want to participate in the rerun elections and instead wants to travel to Ichaweri,‘“ his hometown in Kiambu County.

“When I saw him, I said, ‘You!‘ If I hadn’t been acting respectfully, I would have given him a hard slap. How could we simply give up?” Ruto declared.

Ruto further asserted that because the Jubilee party could not have lost, he was the one who kept begging with Uhuru to participate in the rerun.

“I assured him that we could not simply give up after winning the election. There were more senators, governors, and MPs. We had put in a lot of effort, he said. Kiama Ka Ma Captain (Retd) Kung’u Muigai, Rigathi Gachagua, Speaker of the National Assembly Justin Muturi, Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria, and his Kikuyu counterpart Kimani Ichung’wa were among those standing at Ruto’s sides.”