Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is the man President William Ruto is using to woo members of the Azimio La Umoja coalition into Kenya Kwanza.
This is according to former Mukurweini Member of Parliament Kabando Wa Kabando, who, however, has said that he can never be among those joining Ruto.
He has suggested that the Azimio members from Mt Kenya who are joining Ruto are doing it because of pressure from the Second in Command.
He has urged other colleagues in Azimio to move on to oversight the regime and not teaming up with it, terming those crossing over greedy.
“I recognise him (Gachagua) as our DP. But for the record, I don’t support him nor can I be among those greedy Mt Kenya Azimiosts he’s recruiting for Ruto. Yes, I left a limping Azimio but I oppose Ruto,” he said in a statement on X on Saturday.
Kabando also took issue with Gachagua for always getting a reason to attack Azimio boss Raila Odinga even when there is nothing to be attacked for.
He termed this the strategy Gachagua is using to demonise Raila in the Mt Kenya region, hoping that this way, he can rally the region behind himself.
But he reminded the region that Raila is and has never been it’s enemy, and Gachagua is only using his name to try and get to rule the community.
“Dear my people of Mt Kenya region, Raila Odinga was never, is not, and shall never be our enemy. Kenya is only of two tribes – one, merchants of graft, and two, victims of corruption. Looters use RAO as the bogeyman to stir ethnic paranoia, to dominate us,” added the former parliamentarian.