Roots Party deputy presidential candidate Justina Wamae clashed with political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi on Twitter on Wednesday after the latter referred to her as a UDA party mole.
Prof. Ngunyi began the exchange by criticizing Wamae on social media for implying that her party’s leader, Prof. George Wajackoyah, was indirectly supporting Azimio La Umoja presidential candidate Raila Odinga.
Mutahi went on to claim that Wamae was a project of UDA candidate and Deputy President William Ruto, inciting her rage.
“So what if Wajakoyah is a Baba mole? Is he spying for Baba at the Roots Party, which he owns? Do not insult his intelligence. This Justina Wamae is not making sense. Or is she making an argument to be moled by UDA?” Mutahi wrote on Twitter.
Wamae responded by accusing Mutahi of being paid by Azimio la Umoja One Kenya frontman Raila Odinga to drum up support for Azimio ahead of the August elections.
Wajackoyah’s running mate didn’t mince words when it came to his knowledge of the meaning of the word mole.
“Perhaps you could do a series on the 5th estate with a CLEAR definition of a mole. From where I sit you cannot purport to speak for me or Roots party. Eat Azimio’s money in silence. Ukishiba funika tumbo,” she wrote.
Wamae renounced herself from any political project ahead of the August 9 polls and stood by her affirmation that no leader should be imposed on the Kenyan electorate.
“I cannot say that youth and women are not pageboys and flower girls respectively then cow when needed to be independent minded,” she reiterated.
The storm in the Roots Party tea cup began after a video of Wajackoyah allegedly endorsing the former Prime Minister at a recreation joint went viral.
Through spokesperson Wilson Muirani, Wajackoyah dismissed the claims that he was backing Raila’s presidential bid.
“We would like to categorically state that we have a presidential candidate who is on the ballot and will win this election. We have not and will not endorse any other candidate,” Muirani noted.
