Democracy for Citizens (DCP) Party leader Rigathi Gachagua has stated that he has succeeded in ring-fencing the Mount Kenya vote from the forays of President William Ruto ahead of the 2027 polls.
Speaking during a roadside rally in Vihiga County’s Luanda Market on Thursday, July 3, 2025, Gachagua indicated that he has locked Ruto out of the Mountain, and that he carries the key along wherever he goes.
“I was the deputy of Ruto, do you know him more than I do? Will you give us your leaders so that we can agree on how to take over the leadership of this country? In Mountain Kenya, I locked out Ruto, and the key is with me, I walk with it everywhere I go,” Gachagua said.
Sever ties with Raila
He urged the voters in the region to abandon their previous ties with the former Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, and embrace the united opposition, for a chance to form the next government in 2027.
Gachagua equally appealed to the voters, noting that he was thrown out of the Kenya Kwanza administration for siding with his Luhya ‘cousins’.
“I differed with Ruto because of the Luhya people. He agreed with Wetangula and Mudavadi that you would get 30 per cent of the national cake and 100,000 kilometres of tarmac. When I asked for your share, they branded me a tribalist and kicked me out,” Gachagua stated.
“As the Mulembe nation, you have been used for political expediency for far too long while you languish in misery.”
Half-term
On his part, Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka observed that President William Ruto should be grateful that the united opposition was not calling for his removal from office prematurely.
“Ruto should be thankful to me and Rigathi Gachagua for calling for one term; other Kenyans are calling for a half-term. This is a group that has decided that the nation must be liberated. This round, the votes of Kenyans will not be stolen just like mine and Raila Odinga’s were stolen,” Kalonzo remarked.
The rally was also attended by former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i, Trans-Nzoia Governor George Natembeya and DAP-K Party leader Eugene Wamalwa, among other senior politicians.
