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No love lost: How Uhuru fell out of favour with his Mt Kenya region

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 Uhuru Kenyatta addresses religious leaders drawn from the Mt Kenya region during a non-denominational service at State House Nairobi in July 2022. [PPS]

In 2010, former Kangema MP John Njoroge Michuki made a remark that calmed divisions that were emerging over the political direction of Mt Kenya region.

By this time, a daughter and son of the soil, Martha Karua and Peter Kenneth, had started campaigning for the presidency and confusion had ensued.

Michuki's remarks that Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta was the Mt Kenya region kingpin and the de facto leader of the Agikuyu community spelt doom for Karua and Kenneth's political ambitions.

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