Calls for unity dominated Madaraka Day celebrations at Ndaragwa Stadium on Wednesday, with leaders asking Nyandarua Governor Daniel Waithaka and Deputy Governor Waithaka Mwangi to work together.
Ndaragwa leaders advised them to unite for political survival.
Kiriita MCA Maina Nderitu said there is nothing more powerful and important than a united people.
“You two need to sit down and talk. You need to reconcile. Do not let the leadership of Nyandarua county be grabbed by strangers,” he said.
Nderitu said the persistent fighting between the two politicians should stop and they should instead support each other despite individual weaknesses.
He urged them to speak in one voice “just like Mau Mau freedom fighters did during the struggle to liberate Kenya from colonial chains”.
Leshau Pondo MCA Joseph Kamau said Nyandarua would have developed if the governor and his deputy were united from the beginning.
He said if the two leaders do not unite, “our opponents will unite and squeeze you out of the leadership”.
Wilson Mburu, the Nyandarua North Mau Mau War Veterans’ chairman, said the county will not develop without unity.
This call for unity was supported by Nyandarua county commissioner Samuel Kimiti and assembly speaker Wahome Ndegwa.
But Deputy Governor Waithaka Mwangi accused MCAs and county executives of perpetuating the differences between him and the governor.
“When you are sent to represent the governor at functions, where do you tell the people his deputy is? Do you say he declined, he has travelled, he resigned or he is dead? “ he asked.
