18/12/2025
Rigathi Gachagua emerged the last in President Ruto's school of politics. Even Oscar Sudi is above him.
Ruto's greatest political weapon has always been eloquence. He speaks beyond tribes. He speaks ambition. That is why those molded under him (Ndindi Nyoro, Kimani Ichung’wah, Kithure Kindiki) communicate in a national tone that cuts across Kenya.
Gachagua missed that lesson completely.
Instead, he graduated from the Moi school of politics: divide, retreat into ethnicity, and shout louder when relevance fades. Every time he opens his mouth, it is Kikuyu this, Murima that. He has reduced leadership to a roll call of tribes.
Even the people he claims to defend are exhausted.
Kikuyus no longer want a tribal warlord masquerading as a leader. They want a national figure with vision, not a man stuck in ethnic nostalgia. Murima voters know this. They do not believe Gachagua can lead them anywhere, let alone to a promised land.
Impeachment taught him nothing. He emerged bitter, smaller, and more provincial. In his mind, Kenya begins in Wamunyoro and ends in Kenol. Anything beyond that does not exist.
Meanwhile, Ruto is already back on the ground in Mt. Kenya, reorganizing and reclaiming space. Nyeri is next. That is where Rigathi will finally understand that politics is ruthless. Hapo ndiyo atajua amekuwa kihîî.
Without structure, strategy, or a serious manifesto, the so-called opposition is dead on arrival.
Rigathi Gachagua is not fighting to remove Ruto. He is fighting to secure a deal. DCP is not a liberation movement—it is a bargaining chip, a pension plan, a retirement package dressed up as resistance.
That is not leadership. That is survival politics.
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