(VIDEO) DP RUTO HITS BACK AT PRESIDENT UHURU.

Deputy President William Ruto yesterday declared that nobody owed him anything for his 2022 presidential bid.  

In an apparent response to President Uhuru Kenyatta’s speech at Sagana State Lodge on Saturday, Ruto agreed with the assertions that he was not owed.

Dr Ruto said when he supported Uhuru in 2013, he did not give any conditions, adding that he would seek Kenyans’ support directly.

Speaking during a fundraiser for. Maranatha  Church at Enoosaen, Trans-Mara West Sub-county in Narok County yesterday, Ruto said what was important for him at the moment was to ensure that together with the President they delivered their agenda for Kenya.

The Deputy President said the only debt he and the President had was to unite the country and ensure they delivered on the promises they made to Kenyans in the campaigns leading to the 2013 and 2017 elections.

“I have always defended the Jubilee government’s track record because I know that together with the President we owe Kenyans good leadership and development, since we were elected jointly,” said Ruto.

Ruto said he did not ask the President to support him for 10 years, and that he did not want to rise to the country’s leadership on the basis of ethnic mobilisation and tribal arrangements.

The Deputy President said he would want to be judged based on his performance, asking his rivals not to seek the country leadership using shortcuts and treachery but to sell their agenda to Kenyans.

“The route to leadership is through the people of Kenya. I pity any leader who thinks that he will be elected based on debts, ethnic mobilisation or political arrangements,” said Ruto.

He said all leaders should seek votes based on their development records and agenda for the people they seek to support.

He pledged to unite Kenyans and vowed not to engage in political arrangements aimed at dividing citizens.

Further, Ruto said the journey he started with Uhuru in 2013 had not ended.

Source: The Standard.