Justina Wamae Trolls Wajackoyah While Begging Ruto For Job

Roots party ex-running mate Justina Wamae fired another ridicule at party leader George Wajackoyah while begging president-elect, William Ruto, to give her a job in his administration.

Wajackoyah, after the Supreme Court ruling on Monday, September 5, had indicated that he would take the reins of the opposition representing the interests of the over six million voters who might have been unhappy about the court's decision.

While welcoming the verdict by Chief Justice Martha Koome, Wajackoyah added that he would take over the watchdog role with the sole task of keeping Ruto's administration in check.

"We had six million voters that are currently crying but I would advise them against it. As the official member of the opposition, we are going to put Ruto's government into account," the former presidential hopeful stated.

However, Wamae responded by indicating that he barely had support from the people of Kenya, making reference to Roots Party's performance in the August 9 general elections.

"Six million votes you say? Roots only got 61,969 votes. This was just a confirmation that he was a project. He was also looking for a job but placed a losing bet," Wamae stated.

She added that the seven-judge bench had rescued her from attacks by the Roots Party and Wajackoyah as a whole while reiterating his congratulatory message to Ruto, who emerged victorious in the presidential petition.

"Once again congratulations President-Elect and Deputy President-Elect. I have been vindicated. Even if they decided to kick me out of the party, we have 'already burned down the trees'," she stated, making reference to the party motto 'Tingiza Miti.'

Wamae then begged Ruto to give her a job, the second attempt at doing so having expressed her interest in serving as a minister in the Kenya Kwanza'a administration ahead of the Supreme Court's verdict.

"Justina Wamae is humbled, thank you Mr President William Ruto and Rigathi Gachagua. The Bible says, speak the truth, my truth is naomba kazi (I'm begging for a job). Am ready to serve," she tweeted.

However, her first job hunt came at the cost of her deteriorating relationship with Wajackoyah as his party announced changes in its structure on Tuesday, August 30.

The party revealed the names of individuals in administrative positions following a resolution by the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) in a meeting held at the party offices in Karen, Nairobi.

In the new changes, Yagnik Vinod Ramji was appointed the Deputy Party leader. Naran Velji Arjan will be the Chief Executive Officer and Janet Akinyi Odhiambo will be the new deputy national chairperson.

Wamae was notably missing from the list of appointments, with reports revealing that she was to only serve as his running mate for the August 9 general elections, afterwhich she had no role in the party.

She was summoned by the Roots Party for a disciplinary hearing after she was accused of failing to adhere to the Constitution of the roots party as well as its manifesto over recent comments that downgraded the party, including those that claimed that Wajackoyah was supporting former Prime Minister, Raila Odinga.