{"id":94724,"date":"2024-09-22T07:03:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T07:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/22\/gachagua-hits-campaign-trail-to-forge-2027-alliance-against-ruto\/"},"modified":"2024-09-22T07:03:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T07:03:14","slug":"gachagua-hits-campaign-trail-to-forge-2027-alliance-against-ruto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/gachagua-hits-campaign-trail-to-forge-2027-alliance-against-ruto\/","title":{"rendered":"Gachagua hits campaign trail to forge 2027 alliance against Ruto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 22 \u2014 Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has hinted at charting a new political journey ahead of 2027 away from President William Ruto following his alleged persecution in government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Limuru, Kiambu county, on Saturday, Gachagua disclosed that he is already courting new political friends in an apparent exit strategy should his political opponents make true their threats to execute his impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>He made the revelations a day after he admitted that President Ruto had the ability to marshal sufficient votes in the National Assembly to seal his impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe respect president Ruto and will continue to do so. But as we do that, we continue to look for new friends because we don\u2019t want Mount Kenya people to be on their own,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gachagua headed to Limuru after lauching a fierce camapign against President Ruto during a media interview on Friday night as his boss, leader of the ruling UDA-led alliance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2024\/09\/my-impeachment-would-not-sail-through-without-rutos-support-gachagua\/\">My impeachment would not sail through without Ruto\u2019s support: Gachagua<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>During the interview, he lamented over persecution in the broad-based government President Ruto constituted which includes five allies of opposition leader Raila Odinga.<\/p>\n<p>He alleged an elaborate plan to impeach him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone knows about it. There was a meeting in Nyahururu and another at a Cabinet Secretary\u2019s house in Kitisuru, Nairobi, where this plot was hatched. It\u2019s not a secret,\u201d Gachagua stated during an exclusive interview on Citizen TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet them go ahead. If they table a motion to remove me, so be it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gachagua claimed those out to impeach him had offered lawmakers bribes.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy President challenged his boss to denounce meetings convened to plot his ouster stating that an impeachment plot could only go ahead with his nod.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 22 \u2014 Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has hinted at charting a new political journey ahead of 2027 away from President William Ruto following his alleged persecution in government. Speaking in Limuru, Kiambu county, on Saturday, Gachagua disclosed that he is already courting new political friends in an apparent exit strategy should his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}