Despite being barred from elected politics Rigathi Gachagua has spent the 20 months since his October 2024 impeachment becoming the biggest obstacle to President Ruto's re-election...

Its leading lights are Jubilee Party and Wiper Patriotic Front leaders Fred Matiang'i and Kalonzo Musyoka former cabinet ministers Martha Karua and Justin Maturi and former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua (AC Vol 66 No 5 The anti-Ruto alliance)...

‘History will record your vote and in 425 days just like the current regime the people will have made a record of the choice you made ' said Wiper Patriotic Front leader Kalonzo Musyoka while former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua described the National Assembly's vote on the bill as a ‘defining moment' for Kenya...

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)...

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...