Roots Party presidential candidate George Wajackoyah has told off his critics hell-bent on derailing his presidential bid by claiming he is a British Citizen.

Wajackoyah was responding to former presidential candidate Peter Solomon Gichira who wrote a letter to the British High Commission in Nairobi to clarify if the controversial politician is a registered British citizen and if he renounced his British citizenship.

Wajackoyah said in a statement that he only holds Kenyan citizenship and has never changed his citizenship.

He said his detractors are only wasting their time and they should just find information about the same online.

"I have never changed my citizenship. They just ought to go to the internet and google. They are wasting their time to go to the British Embassy. Nobody is deporting me because I am a Kenyan, born in Kenya with very high epistemology in terms of academia," Wajackoyah said.

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"I have been outside the country, Living indefinitely in a country doesn't necessarily mean you have to be a citizen. These circus need to read before they write they are wasting their time."  

Gichira in his letter copied to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) wanted the commission to bar Wajackoyah from contesting, claiming he holds dual citizenship, yet the Kenyan Constitution does not allow such.