• Tuju who was speaking on Wednesday, alleged that Uhuru promised to hand over presidency to the incumbent deputy president.
Azimio la Umoja executive director Raphael Tuju has claimed that President Uhuru Kenyatta promised to hand over power to DP Wiliam Ruto in a deal that has failed to materialize.
Tuju, who was speaking on Wednesday, alleged Uhuru promised to hand over the presidency to the incumbent deputy president after 10 years.
"Ile pesa alipewa ilikua deposit, the balance ilikua kupewa slots kwa zile ministries ambazo zitampatia income, na kupewa usukani kua rais, (The money he was given was just the deposit. He was to be given cabinet slots and Uhuru agreed to hand over power to him after the end of his second term," Tuju told Inooro TV.
On Wednesday last week, he insisted that the DP has been paid off to back up the president.
"Ruto never supported the President willingly, as he publicly says," Tuju said.
The remarks come at the backdrop of another dossier where Tuju sensationally claimed money exchanged in hands before the DP supported him.
He had said that DP Ruto joined Uhuru with a set of demands, which led to him getting half of all cabinet slots.
“To him (Ruto) politics is business and that is why when he was making appointments in the cabinets and parastatals, he had to be given a 50 per cent share."
In an interview with Citizen last week, Tuju claimed that Ruto used the parliamentary leadership to blackmail Uhuru.
He said former National Assembly majority leader Aden Duale and Budget and Appropriations Committee Chairman Kimani Ichungwah were also part of the scheme.
According to the former Jubilee secretary general, this is what pushed Uhuru to seek an alliance with his two-time competitor.
"It was better to work with an honest Raila who would be ready to work with him without demanding anything in his government and support him in parliament, instead of a Ruto who at every possible corner, he blackmailed the president. He used the speakers, he used Duale, he used Ichungwah," Tuju said on Citizen TV.
Uhuru went public to say, "I have never said I will not support William Ruto, why do you keep insulting me? Yes, I said kumi kumi yangu kumi na Ruto kumi."