Ruto's equally embattled deputy Rigathi Gachagua who has spent recent weeks attempting to cosy up to former President Uhuru Kenyatta to shore up support in the Mount Kenya region may be looking for a new party...
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Nairobi governor Johnson Sakaja is under growing pressure after Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua hinted that State House was ready to intervene in the governance of the city...
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However despite the optics of harmony and consensus at the memorial services in Ulinzi stadium in Nairobi and at his burial in Siaya County which were attended by Ruto Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and others Ogolla who had served two years as Vice-Chief of the KDF was not obviously Ruto's man...
Last July Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua warned diplomats that they would have to sign 'performance contracts to market our products abroad' a broad hint that the government wants them to become salespeople rather than traditional diplomats...
Questions multiply about right-hand man Gachagua Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's position is in flux ahead of the 2027 election...
Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has been gradually sidelined while Musalia Mudavadi with foreign affairs now part of his prime cabinet secretary portfolio has become the key figure in Ruto's government (AC Vol 64 No 21 Ruto's reshuffle rewards the technocrats)...
Corruption cases against Ruto's' cabinet secretary for gender and culture Aisha Jumwa and Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua were abandoned by state prosecutors within weeks of Ruto's election victory (Dispatches 19/10/22 Freedom for Ruto allies as prosecutors drop corruption cases)...
Mudavadi poses no threat to Ruto as an election rival though his elevation will cause anxiety for Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua who has spent much of the last year trying to shore up his own influence in the Ruto administration...
Allies of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua fear that rapprochement between Ruto and Odinga would sideline their man in a repeat of the 'handshake' politics that sidelined Ruto for most of the Jubilee government's second term (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...
Meanwhile the steady Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has emerged as the administration's international ambassador-at-large while the less experienced Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is focused on domestic matters...