Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga has expressed his confidence that Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua will survive any impending impeachment with a strong backing from the Mount Kenya region.....CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
Speaking during an interview with TV47 on Friday, Kahiga acknowledged that if the impeachment rumours are really true, then Mount Kenya will not take the threats lying down and will rally behind the Deputy President.
“Bring it on! This Mountain will be watching. For every action there will be a reaction. Let it be so clear, you cannot do that to our son and expect we will be there towing around anybody. If indeed there are reasons to impeach the DP, so be it” Kahiga said.
Even though Kahiga says that DP Gachagua was relatively unknown when he was elected, he is confident that right now everyone from the mountain is behind him except for 48 MPs.
“I can speak in confidence because I live in Nyeri and I reach out. We are behind the deputy president. But of course you can always subtract the 48 who went to Nyahururu. The rest of us are behind that man.” Kahiga said.
Kahiga vehemently insisted that an impeachment against the DP could never be successful because he is being vilified unjustifiably and being accused of things that do not exist, adding that in politics you are not meant to love each other but it’s all about serving the public’s interests which he believes the DP has successfully done.
However, the Nyeri governor said that this was not at all unprecedented as former President and Mount Kenya Kingpin Uhuru Kenyatta had already warned them of the implications of voting in President Ruto in the 2022 general elections.
Despite this warning, Kahiga said Mt. Kenya decided to back President Ruto in order to repay the political debt owed to the current Head of State whose support was key in ensuring Uhuru was elected both in 2013 and 2017.
This decision, he said, was mostly warranted by Uhuru’s failure to explain the reasoning behind his fallout with Ruto and why he endorsed Raila in 2022.
Even though former President Uhuru Kenyatta had promised Mt. Kenya politicians that he would tell them what led to the fallout, Kahiga says that he ultimately left office without revealing what transpired.
This comes days after a caucus of 48 MPs from Central Kenya joined their colleagues from Mount Kenya East to declare Interior CS Kithure Kindiki their kingpin and their link to the executive.
The current atmosphere in Kenya eerily mirrors events leading up to the 2022 general elections when Uhuru called a truce with Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga to sideline Ruto. This time, the same script is being used to sideline Gachagua. It remains to be seen if an impeachment motion will be tabled against Gachagua…CLICK HERE FOR MORE ARTICLE>>>
