Uhuru: we didn’t target Raila

By Mwaniki Munuhe

Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta denied claims he met two other leaders to plot how to defeat Prime Minister Raila Odinga in the March General Election.

Uhuru said his meeting with Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka, and Eldoret North MP, William Ruto, did not target any individual.

Uhuru, speaking during The National Alliance (NTA) women congress, said his meeting with the two leaders was aimed at forging an alliance capable of uniting the country.

“Yesterday you saw we met with other leaders. I want to say this so that the media can stop spreading falsehoods. We did not meet to see how we can defeat one man. I am not interested in an individual and I will not work to fight one person. We are interested in Kenya,” he said.

And in what appeared to be a thinly veiled attack on parties challenging TNA in its strongholds, Uhuru urged aspirants to stop contesting political positions on what he termed as ‘small parties’. He asked them to join TNA.

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“I am urging you to stop doing politics of joining small parties,” he said.