Barely two days after Gachagua and his convoy expressed their disappointments in the sidelinement claims in government, Ruto’s Mt Kenya ally has responded to these claims.
Ruto’s close ally and Kirinyaga County Governor Anne Waiguru has come out to criticize Rigathi Gachagua over what she termed as personalisation of the office of thr Deputy President by Gachagua.
In a statement through her social media platforms, Anne Waiguru told off Gachagua to allow youths and anyone who is aspiring to be a Deputy President do so without intimidating them.
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“While we respect the office of the Deputy President, and indeed any other office of leadership, a progressive democracy does not allow us as occupiers of public leadership offices to personalise them to the extent that it becomes taboo for anyone else to nurture and express ambition to occupy them.”
According to Waiguru, behaviour like those are the ones that scare off young leaders from dreaming and senior politicians should use their positions to nurture upcoming leaders and bot to intimidate and scare them off.
“Everyone has a right to dream and pursue their dreams like those in current leadership dreamt and their dreams actualised by the support of millions of youth and women. They (those harboring political ambition) too, deserve support, not hostility.”
Waiguru, who accompanied President Ruto to the United States made these statements amid intensifying cracks and tension within the UDA party and by extension, the government.
Gachagua’s close allies led by Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga while speaking on the matter on Sunday said that there are people within government that are working to increase the rift between the President and the DP.
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“When Ruto was the Deputy President, he was shown alot of animosity but we voted for him. We will not allow Gachagua to go through that. The seat was not given to him, he fought for it.”