Rigathi Gachagua's Ally Tears Into William Ruto In Public, Dares Him To Dump DP: "Umetukera Sana"

• All is not well in the presidency, as President William Ruto and his deputy Rigathi Gachagua are now openly facing off with each other through their loyalists
• Gachagua's allies have vowed to repulse any attempts fronted by the president's loyalists to impeach him (Gachagua)
• The deputy president's faction promised to mobilise the Mt Kenya region away from Ruto should he dump him

Eli Odaga, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings more than three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.

Nairobi - Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and his loyalists have finally vacated their hideouts for an all-out political war against the loyalists of President William Ruto.

Gachagua has lately been thrown to the guillotine as a section of lawmakers from Mt Kenya who religiously rally behind the president plan the former's impeachment.

How Gachagua's key ally warned Ruto

Speaking in Wakulima Market (Marikiti), Nairobi, Friday morning, a team of lawmakers accompanying the deputy president laid the blame on Ruto.

They regretted that Gachagua stood with him (Ruto) in the last vote, but he chose to return the gesture with humiliation to the former.

According to the lawmakers, Ruto had began giving the region his back after supposedly courting support from other parts of the country, majorly the Western and Nyanza regions.

Embakasi North MP James Gakuya gave Ruto a piece of his mind.

"If William Ruto was not satisfied with Gachagua as his running mate in 2022, that he now wants to shortchange us now, he should forget it. We are telling him during the day that if he is tired of the Mt Kenya vote, just because he has united with others, he should leave us alone. We know where we are headed. He is telling us to stop politicking about 2027, yet he is playing the same; we can't stop. We want to tell him that he has annoyed us, and we see he is directing us to a place of doom. We will not accept," fired Gakuyo.

The deputy president also reacted to the plans to impeach him.

How Mt Kenya politicians started plot against Gachagua

In recent weeks, the ever-politically charged Mt Kenya region, which Gachagua styled himself as its de facto leader, has been full of activities, with blocks emerging to dissent from him.

It began with some 48 lawmakers convening to rally behind Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki as the region's go-to leader, followed by over 300 ward representatives who also declared their support for Kindiki, and then over 2,000 members of the revered Meru Council of Elders Njuri Ncheke following suit.

In the midst of the political goings-on, reports emerged that a motion to institute Gachagua's ouster was already in the precincts of parliament and would be tabled soon.

All the while, Gachagua and his team stayed clear of the political happenings until Friday, September 20, when they unlocked their claws.

What Gachagua said over his ouster plot

Gachagua claimed many Kenya Kwanza Alliance MPs had been bought to impeach him.

A visibly angry Gachagua warned that those planning his ouster would not succeed, given that Kenyans elected him and not lawmakers.

He rebuked the lawmakers behind his impeachment push, terming them selfish.

Proofreading by Asher Omondi, current affairs journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke.

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