Two days after the Controversial Presidential tour to Murang'a County (that majority have since described it as 'Fruitless') a debate on whether Independent candidates were supposed to attend the meeting has emerged.
Murang'a Women Representative and Education Committee Chair in the National Assembly Hon Sabina Chege has come out with gun blazing castigating Kembi's move to attend 'Jubilee's meeting citing that 'The Independent candidates who attended the Presidential campaign tour contravened the electoral laws and should be investigated by IEBC'
Sabina who is the Jubilee's nominee for Women representative post in Muranga, castigated the independent candidates for trying to find favour by hiding in the President's Coat and sneaking in to the meeting reminding them that by vying as Independents they did not subscribe to the ideologies of Jubilee party and hence they should keep off the party affairs.
'It is important that these people accept defeat and ape leaders like Jamleck Kamau and Kinuthia Mbugua who conceded defeat and vowed to support the winners, It's not too late for them," Sabina said adding that those who resigned after being trounced by their opponents had inherited Raila's spirit not accepting defeat since 1992.
Addressing the media at Kandara, Sabina who is known for the slogan Maitu Ndacenjagio described Independent candidates as power hungry, people with greed and blinding lust for power.
Sabina, a savvy politician, added that by attending the caravan as persona non gratas Kembi and Waithira humiliated themselves and that their strategies and tactics were not well thought out.
However Sabina's statements did not go unanswered.
Murang'a Senator Hon Kembi Gitura who is also vying as an independent candidate, shrugged off Sabina's sentiment wondering at what capacity could Sabina ask leaders to step down.
'By lording people to step down Sabina is simply taking us back to 1970s when our country was not enjoying democracy.I offer to remind her that Kenneth Matiba and Charles Rubia fought for it and she must let the people decide,' Kembi said.
Kembi, who is looking horns with his colleague Lawyer and Kiharu legislator Hon Irungu Kangata dismissed the accusations that he breached electoral laws insisting that 'The President remained the President 24/7 and that he had every right to attend to the meeting saying that he had been attended officially.
The relentless Kembi stated that the 'President needed all the Independent candidates and even candidates from smaller parties especially under the current Constitution where for one to be the President he must gunner 50% ➕ 1 adding that 'Every vote counts'
'I did not intrude Jubilee's meeting, I was invited officially and as far as I'm concerned the meeting at Blue Post was not a Jubilee party meeting, it was a Leaders meeting and that's why I, Gakure Monyo, and others went," Kembi Gitura told Journalists.
Asked why he followed President Kenyatta to all the stop overs and at Ihura Stadium, Kembi answered. "The President was campaigning to the same people who I'm asking to vote for me and my presence in all those areas, made a significant political statement, That I'm in the race and that I'm supporting Uhuru Kenyatta as the next President of the Republic of Kenya"
Kembi also described the chaos witnessed at Blue Post minutes before the arrival of the President and unfortunate, scandalous and asked Murang'a residents to take stock of the leaders they wanted.
