Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua says President Ruto keeps coming after him because Mount Kenya controls six million votes that could hit eight million next cycle, and the region already decided to boot somebody out of office. Gachagua thinks Ruto got boxed in politically across Mount Kenya, Lower Eastern, Western, Nairobi, and Coast regions, the same way Daniel arap Moi did back in 1992 when the mountain rejected him completely.
Gachagua accused Ruto of deploying multiple proxies he calls wheelbarrows to split Mount Kenya votes across Murang'a, Kiambu, Kirinyaga, and other counties. He name-dropped politicians like Kiunjuri, Kabogo, and Kuria as examples of people trying to fracture the voting bloc. The strategy apparently mirrors how Moi tried to divide votes decades ago, but Kibaki won in 2002 by consolidating 3.6 million against Uhuru's 1.8 million.
Gachagua claims corruption drives Kenya's problems way more than tribalism does, and unity matters because combining Mount Kenya's seven million with votes from Ukambani, Western, and Coast regions would send Ruto packing.
Gachagua accused Ruto of deploying multiple proxies he calls wheelbarrows to split Mount Kenya votes across Murang'a, Kiambu, Kirinyaga, and other counties. He name-dropped politicians like Kiunjuri, Kabogo, and Kuria as examples of people trying to fracture the voting bloc. The strategy apparently mirrors how Moi tried to divide votes decades ago, but Kibaki won in 2002 by consolidating 3.6 million against Uhuru's 1.8 million.
Gachagua claims corruption drives Kenya's problems way more than tribalism does, and unity matters because combining Mount Kenya's seven million with votes from Ukambani, Western, and Coast regions would send Ruto packing.
