Yet the launch of the People's Liberation Party (PLP) the new party led by Martha Karua – Raila Odinga's running mate in the 2022 presidential elections – brought together the great and the good of Kenya's opposition (Dispatches 16/5/22 Martha Karua and Rigathi Gachagua make the cut as running mates )...
These include former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka and Democratic Action Party of Kenya leader Eugene Wamalwa...
The UDA having jettisoned its deputy leader Rigathi Gachagua last year now plans to hold the postponed county and ward elections in April (AC Vol 65 No 12 One party in a state)...
The impeachment of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua orchestrated by Ruto's supporters sparked a new challenge to the President from the Mount Kenya region...
The impeachment of Rigathi Gachagua as Ruto's deputy president meanwhile has in effect collapsed the UDA of which Gachagua was deputy leader though he has now been expelled (AC Vol 65 No 22 Ruto's impeachment of his Deputy starts to backfire)...
Kithure Kindiki the interior cabinet secretary during the protests has now been elevated to the deputy presidency following the impeachment of Rigathi Gachagua (AC Vol 65 No 22 Ruto's impeachment of his Deputy starts to backfire)...
For all the ‘sturm und drang' over the impeachment of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua it is still unclear why he and President William Samoei Ruto fell out...
The confirmation of Rigathi Gachagua's defenestration as deputy president by the Senate as Africa Confidential went to press has left Mount Kenya and the Gikuyu community weighing up next steps (AC Vol 65 No 20 The deputy takes the fall)...
Out of 345 seats currently occupied in the National Assembly 293 MPs voted to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua comfortably above the two-thirds majority needed...
Azimio's titular leader Musyoka is among a group of political kingpins led by Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua – also the deputy leader of Ruto's United Democratic Alliance (UDA) – who has effectively been frozen out of government by Ruto...
Trouble on the mountain Exiled from his own government by President William Ruto's deal with Raila Odinga Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is struggling to retain his status as Mount Kenya's political leader (AC Vol 63 No 12 Now the numbers favour Raila Odinga)...
The odd man out in the latest round of political musical chairs is Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua as Kenya's political parties realign to prepare for the 2027 elections...