Mr Ruto instead asked them to prepare for 2022 elections or they will lose again.
He told Opposition leaders Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, Moses Wetangula and Musalia Mudavadi to join hands with Jubilee in the nation building, saying time for politicking is over.
“Don’t incite your supporters that you can have another election tomorrow, in a week’s time or in a month’s time. That’s a broad daylight lie,” said Mr Ruto.
“Our brothers can join us to develop our country. Kenya is for all of us. They can wait for us in 2022 instead of misleading Kenyans that there will be another election before then (2022),”said Mr Ruto.
The Deputy President dismissed any form of dialogue with the Opposition on electoral reforms, saying election period is over.
Mr Ruto said Kenyans elected their leaders last year from MCAs to the President and wondered why the Opposition leaders were still putting the country in an endless politicking situation.
The Deputy President said the Government was only ready to engage in talks with Nasa leaders on how to develop Kenya and transform the lives of the people.
“We are ready to talk to our friends in the Opposition on how millions of Kenyans can get jobs, eliminate food insecurity, how to transform the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF), accessible healthcare and manufacturing among other development projects. That’s the discussion we want said Mr Ruto.
“But dialogue on who will be the Deputy President or President, or who will be who. We are not qualified. It’s the people who decide and they decided last year that President Uhuru Kenyatta is their President. That’s all,” added Mr Ruto.
“This is like what Chinua Achebe told us, that God’s case, no appeal. People have decided and they have decided,” added Mr Ruto.
The Deputy President made the remarks when he addressed mourners during the burial of the late Yvonne Wamalwa, widow of the former Vice President, the late Kijana Wamalwa, held at her home in Kitale town, Trans Nzoia County onSaturday.
Cabinet Secretaries Eugene Wamalwa (Water) and Amina Mohammed (Foreign Affairs), Senate Speaker Kenneth Lusaka, Senate Minority Leader Moses Wetangula and National Assembly Chip Whip Benjamin Washiali were present.
Others were Governors Patrick Khaemba (Trans Nzoia), Wycliffe Otichilo (Vihiga), Wycliffe Wangamati (Bungoma) and Wycliffe Oparanya (Kakamega) and several MPs drawn from the Senate and National Assembly.
Mr Ruto said the Government was committed to the unity of all Kenyans irrespective of their ethnic and political affiliations.
He said politics based on ethnicity has brought the country more harm than good, urging leaders to engage in politics of unity for the sake of peace and development.
“As Jubilee, we are committed to building bridges of unity, togetherness and brotherhood. We must resist the politics of hatred and ethnicity,” said Mr Ruto.
He said it was the responsibility of all Kenyans to abide by the Constitution and the rule of law, saying no one in the country was above the law.
“As Kenyans, we must abide by the rule of law irrespective of who we are. We must submit to the dictates of the law,” said Mr Ruto.
Mr Wamalwa urged leaders from Western Kenya to embrace politics of tolerance so as to attain the much-needed unity that is capable of collectively addressing the challenges facing the people.
“We need to move away from politics of intolerance and change the way we do things if we are to achieve the much needed unity in our region,” said Mr Wamalwa.
He said his late brother Kijana Wamalwa embraced politics of tolerance where he accommodated those with divergent political issues when he served as Vice President.
“My brother never called anyone a traitor simply because he or she had divergent political issues. When he was in Opposition, for instance, he respected those who were in government including Musalia Mudavadi and never called him a traitor,” said Mr Ruto.
Mr Wetangula called on the need for a national conversation on how to address challenges facing the country.
“We are brothers and we should all believe in our country,” said Mr Wetangula.
Mr Lusaka thanked President Kenyatta and Mr Ruto for allocating more slots to the people of western Kenya including his position and that of Cabinet Secretaries Wamalwa as well as Mr Rashid Mohammed.
The leaders eulogized the late Yvonne as selfless hardworking and strong woman who represented her country well when she served as Kenya’s deputy ambassador to Australia.
President Kenyatta in a condolence message read for him by Mr Ruto described the late Yvonne as devoted and hardworking public servant who raised the country’s flag high in all the places she served while in Foreign Affairs.
“The death of Yvonne is a big lose not only to the family but the country at large,” said President Kenyatta.