Ruto: We won’t allow the ‘deep state’ to install a ‘puppet’ on Nairobians
Deputy President William Ruto has dismissed Azimio la Umoja’s candidate in Nairobi’s gubernatorial race, Polycarp Igathe, as a ‘puppet’ and a project of the deep state.
The DP has also challenged his political opponents who are directing their fight at Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja to deal with him instead of engaging the “wrong person”.
“They want to install a project in Nairobi, a project who will be working for the rich… we want to tell the deep state and the system that you will not succeed,” Ruto said.
Addressing a Kenya Kwanza Alliance campaign rally in Vihiga County on Friday, Dr Ruto said that the people who said he would not make to the ballot in the August 9 General Election have now realised that their plans have failed.
“They have now started to picking on Sakaja. I want to tell the deep state and the system to leave Sakaja and face me,” Ruto said.
He reiterated that the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) gubernatorial candidate’s name will be on the ballot come August 9.
The UDA presidential candidate was accompanied by other Kenya Kwanza leaders, including ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetang’ula of Ford Kenya.
Mr Mudavadi claimed that the people who thwarted the plans of Westlands MP Tim Wanyonyi to vie for Nairobi governor seat are the same people who are fighting Sakaja.
This comes as Sakaja continues to face endless questions surrounding the credibility of his degree certificate from Team University in Uganda.
Sakaja has maintained that his degree is genuine, even as it remains revoked by the Commission for Universities Education (CUE) as investigations continue.