Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has come out to explain why he is now supporting Raila Odinga for the African Union Chairmanship role after calling him names and opposing his leadership in 2022.
According to the DP, who was speaking during the launch of Odinga’s AUC bid, revealed that he previously doubted Azimio Principal’s leadership but he had since changed his mind about Odinga’s leadership capacity.
This comes after the highly contested 2022 Elections where members of Kenya Kwanza Coalition lauched attacks towards the ability of Raila Odinga terming him among different names, old, mganga and many other names.
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However, the Deputy President has claimed that he opposed Raila from leadership because they were both competing for the same position in government and that’s the nature of politics of words.
“Somebody may ask why Rigathi has had issues with the leadership of Raila Odinga, as a truthful man I had nothing against him. It’s only that we were competing for the same position between him and my boss.”
The DP further asked Kenyans across the political devide to support the Former Prime Minister as he formally kicked off his campaign for the top continental role in AU.
“Now that he is going for a bigger seat in AU, all of us from the president and the Kenyans are behind him. I have listened to the ground and all Kenyans across the political divide across communities are in support of your candidature.”
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This comes after the government and the opposition led by the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) joined hands through the broad based government to suppress the protests that had rocked the country in exchange for ministerial positions and support for Raila’s AU Bid.