Dagoretti North MP Simba Arati on Saturday said he was temporarily suspending his Kisii governor campaigns over suspected poisoning of Kitutu Chache South MP Richard Onyonka, a key ally in his team.
Onyonka was at a Friday rally in Ibacho, Masaba South, when he was allegedly poisoned.
He has, however, been discharged after a night stay at Oasis Hospital in Kisii.
Arati said an unidentified man passed a bottle of water to the legislator during the rally which is suspected to have been laced with a poisonous substance.
Onyoka had however hardly swallowed the water because he found it 'tasting different and thus spit it out'.
He bled from his mouth before he was rushed to hospital for treatment.
Arati said they have asked authorities to launch a probe into the incident.
"Let them leave no stone unturned and undertake a decisive probe and bring to book the suspect," said Arati.
Arati, who is seeking the ODM ticket, was joined by Robert Monda, his running mate, Donya Toto, Samuel Omwando and several ward reps in condemning the incident.
Omwando pointed to political malice as being behind the incident.
"If politics is heading here then we are lost as a society," said Omwando.
He alleged there had been people said to be traveling with poison in their pockets targeting members of the Simba Arati team.
"These are tactics of a dying horse. It is a practice that is archaic and primitive that someone is resorting to such kind of tactics to silence us," he told journalists.
