The Safina party presidential candidate Jimi Wanjigi has threatened to reveal details about a power-sharing deal that was settled on by President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto after the 2013 general election.

According to Wanjigi, the power-sharing deal saw the two leaders split the power between them on a 50-50 basis.

Wanjigi said Ruto was hell-bent on taking the part of the share that controls the country’s national treasury while Uhuru was left to take part of the deal that controlled all the security apparatus.

Wanjigi was speaking to members of the public during his trip to Kwale County where he went to popularise his presidential bid.

“The agreement of UHURUTO, in that room there was Uhuru Kenyatta, William Samoei Ruto and Jimi Wanjigi…is it true or false? And he (Ruto) added that the agreement was drafted by this fellow and he has it. I do not know where he has locked it. Maybe he should reveal it to the public,” Wanjigi said.

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He was referring to the day when Ruto dared him to reveal details of an existent power-sharing pact between him and Uhuru during the UDA NDC at Kasarani.

“We split the government in half and one part of the government was being held by the National Security, meaning ‘the gun’. The other part was being held by the National Treasury denoting money. You a country is all about guns and money,” Wanjigi said.

Wanjigi told how the two picked from the two major portions of the power-sharing pact.

“I asked Uhuru Kenyatta, ‘since you will be the president be the one to pick first, what do you want?’ He said Jimi, I want the gun and William Samoei Ruto went with the treasury portion,” Wanjigi revealed.

Wanjigi who seems to have made a U-turn from supporting Ruto said the DP is not in a position to absolve himself from the country’s economic troubles because he was right in the middle of it and was an architect of the same.

Wanjigi also revealed that Ruto is the one who proposed the former Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury to head the ministry.

“That Cabinet Secretary who was there (National Treasury) called Henry Rotich, William Ruto is the one who brought that name onto the table and I was there…we were the three of us,” Wanjigi said.