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President Uhuru Kenyatta’s hard-hitting remarks at the Sagana State Lodge meeting on Wednesday have triggered mixed reactions, especially on the political scene.

During the meeting with thousands of residents and leaders of Mt. Kenya region, President Kenyatta publicly endorsed Raila Odinga’s presidential bid as he unleashed a bare-knuckle attack on his deputy William Ruto whom he declared unfit to succeed him.

Speaking on Citizen TV’s Day Break show on Thursday, Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei and former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero strongly differed in their opinions on the President’s speech delivered in his native Kikuyu dialect.

Senator Cherargei claimed that President Kenyatta’s remarks were outmoded and they cannot trust him for trying to humiliate his deputy.

“We take what the president is saying with a pinch of salt because he is trying to attack the DP to support the ODM candidate,” said Cherargei.

“We cannot trust what the president says because it’s out of convenience to try and show that the DP is dishonest simply because he wants to prop another candidate,” he added.

The Senator further stated that President Kenyatta was on a wild rant against his deputy.

“All this ranting that he is doing especially in Sagana was done to try to portray the Deputy President as dishonest,” Cherargei said.

Former Governor Kidero dismissed Cherargei’s claims stating that it was within the president’s constitutional right to address the public on his opinions.

“The president was not ranting, what he was doing yesterday is enshrined in our Constitution. He was bringing people up to speed on why in his own capacity as an individual he thought that his deputy is not the best person to take the reigns of this country,” posed Kidero.

“And he has a right as the leader and as a citizen. You must make the people know the truth so that they can make the right decisions,” he added.

Cherargei countered Kidero claiming that the President has a tendency of sounding off in public whenever he is disappointed and it was expected.

“My brother here is saying that the president was not ranting and we have know him for sometime, the other time he was ranting is when the Supreme court nullified the elections and I was in state house among other Jubilee leaders and he was having the same way.”

Kidero, who is allied to the Raila Odinga-led Azimio la Umoja movement is eying the Homa Bay County Governor seat in the upcoming August elections.

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