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Thursday, April 6, 2023 –President William Ruto has re-affirmed his commitment to keep the opposition away from his government despite attempts by some quarters to push for power-sharing.
Speaking in Ola Kalou Nyandarua on Thursday, April 6, the president warned the opposition against attempting to force their way into his government through protests and intimidation.
In his address to hundreds of supporters today, the president who was accompanied by his deputy Rigathi Gachagua and scores of UDA Party MPs said he has no intentions of entering into any sort of Handshake with Raila Odinga or anybody else.
“Do I look like someone who would agree to a handshake? I simply told Raila to stop the demonstrations. Take the talks to Parliament. Take the ‘open the server’ requests to Parliament. What is important is that he looks to the future, the election is now behind us,” he added.
He, therefore urged the opposition to trust the work of the proposed Parliamentary engagement channels where every feedback will be availed.
“They (opposition) should stop bothering us. I heard them saying that they want an arrangement similar to the Koffi Annan talks that gave them nusu mkate government. We want to tell the old man (Raila) that he should forget about the handshake or any coalition arrangement. Our focus is to serve the people,” he added.
Yesterday Wednesday April 5, Odinga triggered a huge storm in the ruling party after he shifted goal posts by proposing that a special panel comprising of imminent persons a kin to the 2007 Kofi Annan truce should be put in place.
