Kenyans were jolted on Wednesday, May 16, when it emerged Sonko had settled on the deported lawyer, who is not wanted in Kenya on the basis he renounced his citizenship and has never renewed it, as his preferred deputy.
Miguna said he had never talked with Sonko since their gubernatorial debate in 2017 and that he would not comment on "malicious information" circulating on social media.
“Mike Sonko and I have not spoken, met or communicated since our gubernatorial debate in July 2017. I will not comment on malicious information, material or cheap propaganda circulating in the social media. Thank you,” he said.
Responding to the development, Miguna took to his Twitter to announce he would not be distracted from his liberation cause and urged his opposition supporters to remain focussed and avoid sideshows.
“Patriots, National Resistance Movement- Kenya comrades and friends of Kenya: Just like on January 30, 2018, I and we are focused like a laser beam. No distractions. No sideshows. Viva!,” he said in a tweet seen by TUKO.co.ke on Thursday, May 17.
Sonko pulled the shocker as he heaped praises on Miguna terming him the perfect person to take over the seat left vacant by Polycarp Igathe who recently secured a position at Equity Bank.
In his campaign for the Nairobi governor’s seat, Miguna talked tough against cartels and promised to ‘drain the swamp’ at City Hall.
During the televised debate, Miguna dismantled Sonko terming him a criminal, a goon and a land grabber.
He painted Sonko as a jail bird who escaped from prison and kept changing his name and dismissed him as the worst person to be in charge of the biggest county in the country.
Sonko has been complaining of cartels in the capital who are curtailing his bid to clean the mess at City Hall.
