Why Ruto is Unfit to Be President – Kioni

Jubilee Secretary General Jeremiah Kioni has launched yet another scathing attack on Deputy President William Ruto, dissuading Kenyans against voting in the DP as the country’s next head of State.

In a statement on Wednesday, May 4, Kioni claimed that Kenyans ought to brace themselves for tough times ahead as well as serial complaints should they elect Ruto for the country’s top seat.

He added that the DP preferred cheap antics as opposed to solution-based leadership.

Jubilee Secretary-General Jeremiah Kioni and a section of Jubilee Party members at the party headquarters in Nairobi on Monday, March 21, 2022.

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“If this is the attitude Mr. Ruto would embody if elected as President, then woe unto Kenyans because they would have elected a serial complainer, trickster and manipulator who refuses to associate himself with solution-based leadership, preferring the easy path of idle complaints,” he stated. 

The SG advocated for Ruto to follow in the same suit as former Vice President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, who made the unpopular decision to resign from his post as the Second in Command in 1966. 

Kioni alleged that should Ruto resign, it would be vindication and at least seen as a bold move to sever ties with President Uhuru Kenyatta in order to go on his own path and not associate himself with the current government. 

“It is not yet late for Mr. Ruto to do the right thing. Let him follow in the footsteps of an honourable man Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and resign rather than waste the taxpayers’ sacrifice earning a sumptuous salary, allowances and perks of high office while mocking the poor with a narrative that paints himself as a hustler,” he noted. 

The Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Alliance coalition has been castigating Ruto for associating the achievements of the Jubilee government during the first term and critiquing the same government over a number of issues. 

“We have had enough of your doublespeak and demand that you resign and join the opposition officially as you await defeat in August,” ODM’s SG Edwin Sifuna recently stated. 

The Kenya Kwanza regime has, however, defended their flagbearer, faulting the Head of State for handing over the DP’s duties to other politicians who failed in carrying out the mandate. 

President Uhuru Kenyatta (left) greets his deputy William Ruto at Parliament buildings on Monday, April 25, 2022

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