But the optics of voluntarily importing a disease that has already killed several hundred people in eastern Congo-K are poor and have been seized on by opposition leaders including Wiper Democratic Movement-Kenya leader Kalonzo Musyoka and former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua...
Kithure Kindiki who was appointed to the Vice-Presidency after Rigathi Gachagua was impeached in October 2024 and has promised to deliver central Kenyan votes wants to keep the job...
Rigathi Gachagua won the argument but lost the political battle after the High Court ruled that he was denied due process during the Senate hearing that led to his defenestration as Deputy President in October 2024 – yet still upheld his impeachment (AC Vol 65 No 21 Mountain doesn't go to Gachagua)...
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The Democracy for the Citizens Party set up last year by Rigathi Gachagua impeached in October 2024 after falling out with Ruto took 10 760 votes in a seat where the defeated candidate in 2022 had been Keter himself...
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Rigathi Gachagua Ruto's former deputy president who was impeached in October 2024 is the only viable challenger through his Democracy for the Citizens Party (AC Vol 65 No 20 The deputy takes the fall Vol 65 No 22 Ruto's impeachment of his Deputy starts to backfire & Vol 66 No 11 Impeached but unbowed)...
Rigathi Gachagua Ruto's former Deputy President whose court case contesting his impeachment opened on 27 April quipped that Ruto should not leave Rome before securing blessings from Pope Leo XIV...
Leading opposition politicians including former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and Wiper Patriotic Front leader Kalonzo Musyoka say that the perception of bias in favour of the RSF – accused by the United Nations of having committed genocidal acts during its siege of El Fasher – has damaged Kenya's standing in the region (Dispatches 23/2/26 UN says Hemeti's RSF committed genocide in siege of El Fasher)...
That is the most confident he has sounded since before the Gen Z protests stormed Parliament in June 2024 leading him to sack his cabinet create a de facto unity government with the late Raila Odinga less than two years after narrowly defeating Odinga for the presidency and several months later having his Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua impeached (AC Vol 65 No 16 Raila names his price)...
Most of the aspiring candidates are contesting in the old Rift Valley and Central Provinces the latter a hint that Ruto still has a strong base among the Gikuyu despite his former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua's hopes of peeling off support to his new Democracy for the Citizens Party (AC Vol 66 No 24 Ruto holds the parties together)...
In Mbeere North Embu County former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's Democracy for the Citizens Party came within 500 votes of defeating Ruto's UDA...
