Jubilee Party Deputy Leader Jeremiah Kioni has urged Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro and Nyandarua Senator John Methu to stop their public exchanges, warning that the kind of political divisions witnessed in 2022 could once again undermine the Mt Kenya region ahead of the 2027 General Election.
In a pointed message to the two leaders, Kioni said the current political moment calls for restraint, sober thinking and a willingness to put the bigger picture ahead of personal differences.
Kioni drew parallels with the 2022 elections, when the Tangatanga and Kieleweke factions were locked in political battles that, in his view, distracted leaders from making decisions in the region’s long-term interests.
“We have been here before,” Kioni warned, urging Nyoro and Methu not to allow their current differences to take the region down the same road.
He said arguments over who started a disagreement, who said what or who contributed resources were missing the point at a time when opposition leaders should be working towards a common political position.
“Who did what, who said what, who gave what, or who started what is no longer important. What matters now is the bigger picture; we have a country to serve,” he said.
The Jubilee deputy leader also defended the participation of political parties in ongoing opposition negotiations, arguing that every party has a right to be heard as leaders deliberate on the country’s political future.
With opposition formations facing pressure to agree on a common approach ahead of 2027, Kioni cautioned that public disagreements among leaders could complicate efforts to build consensus around a presidential candidate to challenge President William Ruto.
He called on Nyoro and Methu to lower the temperature, extend an olive branch to each other and stop allowing personal disagreements to overshadow issues affecting the country.
“Let bygones be bygones,” Kioni said, urging the two leaders to embrace maturity and remember that political differences can be resolved without turning them into public confrontations.
His intervention comes as Mt Kenya’s political leadership grapples with the question of who speaks for the region remaining central to opposition calculations.
