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Governor’s love-hate relations with Uhuru's Jubilee party

Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho. [File, Standard]

Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has had an on-and-off relationship with President Uhuru Kenyatta’s handlers and the Jubilee Party hierarchy.

The wars between Sonko and people close to Uhuru intensified shortly before last year’s elections when the governor, then Nairobi senator, alleged a plot to lock him out of the contest citing a hitch in processing his certificate of good conduct.

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