Nairobi News

Nation columnist David Ndii on Wednesday responded to a tweet by a Jubilee Party parliamentary aspirant which was meant to embarrass him.

Njeri Thorne, a political communications consultant, who is eying the Lang’ata parliamentary seat on a Jubilee Party ticket, started the conversation after she tweeted that she had met Ndii and he in fact ate meat pie and sour grapes.

Ms Thorne also claimed that Mr Ndii once applied for a job at the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA).

Let’s deal facts. @DavidNdii, did you apply for a job within Jubilee? Just a yes or no will do. No spin please.

— MamaBora (@NjeriThorne) January 3, 2017

And in his rebuttal, Mr Ndii, who is the Managing Director of Africa Economics and a former technical advisor on Public Finance to the Committee of Experts, posted a copy of an article he wrote on his weekly column.

That one tweet infuriated the political consultant who once said that Jubilee government was just a victim of skepticism on the war on graft.

@njerithorne Since you’ve brought it up https://t.co/kJiU9RlhsY pic.twitter.com/a7Htew2rME

— David Ndii (@DavidNdii) January 3, 2017

Kenyans on Twitter did not take it lightly and urged Mr Ndii to educate Ms Thorne. Here are some of views of Kenyans on Twitter:

@DavidNdii @NjeriThorne Educate them@davidNdii. That is the major sickness in this country. That one of us has to be in power! Bullcrap

— Kieti M D (@kietiMD) January 4, 2017

@NjeriThorne what a scandal. Ehat a shame. What a lame response. I pity the people of Langata – they deserve better. @DavidNdii @dailynation

— David Kimwele (@davidkimwele) January 4, 2017

@davidkimwele @NjeriThorne @DavidNdii as a resident of Langata we now know the moral greatness and intellectual depth of some aspirants

— Abdi Zeila (@AbdiZeila) January 4, 2017

@NjeriThorne @DavidNdii lol…these Kikuyus are delusional & ahistorical

— Shalom Njoki (@shalomnjoki) January 4, 2017

@NjeriThorne @Kipezer @DavidNdii the girl can get “exposure” but you can’t get the plot 10 udaku mentality out of her.

— Hadija Adams (@Hadijaadams) January 4, 2017

@NjeriThorne @DavidNdii so why do we need to know?

— Leonid Kadasia (@kadleo) January 3, 2017

@PalomaGatabaki @NjeriThorne Two Wannabe Socialites are on the neck of ThinkTank @DavidNdii ,We won’t Compromise on #CredibleElections2017

— Charles Mark Dienya (@MarkDienya) January 4, 2017

@DavidNdii Not shocking. The average Kikuyu has been brainwashed that they will be pariahs if one of them isn’t in power. ?@NjeriThorne

— Onyango Rachael (@OnyangoRachael) January 3, 2017

@DavidNdii @NjeriThorne liking the honesty. Maybe not all Kikuyu’s are walking talking stereotypes…

— Allan Maxwell Kimani (@allan_m_kimani) January 4, 2017