Jakaya Kikwete: Why I stood by the late President John Pombe Magufuli to the end

Retired Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete and the late President John Pombe Magufuli. [Courtesy]

Retired Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete has come out to clear the air over claims that he held a strained relationship with the late president John Pombe Magufuli.

At the final send ceremony at Magufuli's Chato home, Kikwete dismissed such claims as unfounded peddled by naysayers out to dive a wage by portraying him as holding a grudge against the deceased.