(KDRTV)-Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga has forsaken Deputy President William days after he was left out in the list of Central Kenya Governors who were invited to attend a meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House in Mombasa
The governor who has played a more conspicuous role in holding DP Ruto`s presidential race in 2022 denounced his support citing his continues politicking
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People Daily reported on Thursday, January 23 that the county chief said he is regretting his resolution to support the Jubilee deputy party leader despite a recurrent plea by president Uhuru against early campaigns that he said are a great challenge to development
Kahiga who became the governor after his boss Wahome Gakuru died in a road accident in November 2017, was speaking during an interview at a local radio station
Kahiga said that he had been duped to believe that the DP trips in Nyeri had a blessing from the head of state.
“DP Ruto has been in Nyeri many times and I have been attending his functions as the county governor. I have, however, come to realise that things are totally different from what I initially thought,” he said.
President Uhuru Kenyatta met governors from Mt. Kenya on Friday, January in what seems like his efforts to recover political might in the region
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Some of the governors who met the head of the state include Anne Waiguru (Kirinyaga), Kiraitu Murungi (Meru) and Ndiritu Mureithi (Laikipia), Mwangi Wa Iria (Murang’a), Francis Kimemia (Nyandarua).
