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...

When Ruto took office in September 2022 the cases against his allies including Vice-President Rigathi Gachagua were swiftly abandoned...

While Odinga is not personally in government he has become the de facto deputy president confirming the marginalisation of Ruto's official deputy Rigathi Gachagua (AC Vol 65 No 6 It's the politics that counts)...

After dismissing his government with the exception of Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi who also serves as Foreign Minister and Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua whose position is protected by the constitution Ruto announced that a week of talks would start on 15 July aimed at forming a ‘broad-based' unity government...

The large number of kidnappings cases of torture and murders of activists are a grisly reminder of the tactics used by former President Daniel arap Moi the political mentor of Ruto and his deputy Rigathi Gachagua under whom dissidents were routinely arrested tortured and killed...

Just weeks after the Supreme Court confirmed Ruto as the elected president in September 2022 then Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji withdrew a raft of high-profile corruption cases including one against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua (Dispatches 19/10/22 Freedom for Ruto allies as prosecutors drop corruption cases)...

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...

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...