Ruto to Raila: Keep my name out of your campaign rallies

Deputy President William Ruto has told Azimio la Umoja flag bearer Raila Odinga to stop mentioning his name in rallies and instead concentrate on selling his agenda to Kenyans.

At a Kenya Kwanza rally at Orahey Grounds in Wajir  on Thursday, Ruto warned Raila against using his name in public platforms and said the trend can be attributed to lack of an agenda by the Azimio team.

“Stop using my name to drive your campaigns. I am not your manifesto. Every day it's Ruto this, Ruto that. Stop it,” Ruto said.

Ironically, Ruto himself has been lambasting Raila on every campaign platform, calling him "mtu ya kitendawili".

The DP has severally claimed that Raila wrecked the Big Four Agenda. 

"Do not blame us when Kenya Kwanza wins the election. It will be because you did not have an agenda other than Ruto,” the DP said .

Ruto reiterated that the Kenya Kwanza team will win the election with a landslide because their competitors did not have a plan for Kenyans

“Your agenda from morning up to evening has been William Ruto this William Ruto that,” he said.  

Present during the rally was ANC party leader Musalia Mudavadi and a host of aspirants for the various seats in Wajir.

The UDA boss attacked the ODM leader on his stand on corruption, accusing him of hypocrisy in his promises.

Ruto told residents not to believe the former Prime Minister  when he tells them he will fight graft.

“How on earth will he fight corruption when he is the biggest beneficiary of it? The money he is using  to campaign is stolen and forcefully gotten from governors," the DP said.

"The people who are campaigning with him are those who have stolen from sick people.” 

He said Raila runs a 'laundary' for governors who have stolen money from poor people.

Ruto said that Raila’s campaign was nothing but a laundry system used by corrupt people in government to clean their stolen wealth.

“How dare he tells us he will fight corruption. Let him look for people who he could lie to but not us. Kenyans are not fools,” Ruto said.

He reiterated that Azimio la Umoja leaders have no plans to better the lives of Kenyans.

“You are just a product of corruption. You feed and sleep on it. My friend, how on earth are you going to fight it when you are the biggest beneficiary?” Ruto asked.

“The people campaigning with you are the people who have stolen from sick people and KEMSA, and now they are financing your campaign.” 

Ruto added that the Building Bridges Initiative was nothing but malicious plans made behind closed doors to benefit the elite families in the country.

“We cannot allow  two to three people to plan for this country. This is a country of over 50 million people. Whatever it is they are planning will be rejected,” Ruto stated.

The UDA leader said that the Azimio La Umoja flagbearer has little to show for the period he served as the Prime Minister in the Grand Coalition government.

“He was in government for a while but what did he do? Nothing. We should get a Bondo express car to drive him there so that he can rest,” he said.

(Edited by Francis Wadegu)