The former Deputy President and Democracy for Citizens Party leader Rigathi Gachagua has told President William Ruto that he cannot stop him from coming to Meru.
Gachagua alleged President Ruto had talked to MPs to try and hire goons to stop him from addressing his supporters in Meru.
Gachagua motorcade had to stop and his supporters were forced to remove tyres and stones that had been put in an effort to block the former DP from accessing Meru town.
The defiant Gachagua addressed a mammoth crowd at Tuskys stage,Gakoromone,and Makutano shopping Centers where he claimed that it was President Ruto who had sponsored goons through Meru MPs so that they could cut off Gachagua from addressing his supporters.
“I want to tell President Ruto that he cannot stop me from coming to Meru. My mother comes from the Meru community and I even have land here. I am planning to build a very big mansion so that I can be closer to our people whether President Ruto likes it or not,” Gachagua said.
Gachagua went ahead to hit at Ruto claiming that they fell out after he noticed the President wanted to split Mount Kenya so that the voters can be tamed.
“His aim was to split Kikuyu, Embu and Meru so that they can be apart politically so that he can fight the tyranny of numbers Mount Kenya has,” Gachagua said.
Gachagua was accompanied by former Agriculture CS and the DCP party organising Secretary General Mithika Linturi who said it is a shame he was being blocked from coming to Meru.
“We are not cowards. We have finally arrived. Shame on them even if we now do not have elected MPs. I want to say that we do not have a shortage of leaders and in 2027 we are going to have several MPs elected in our party,” Mithika said.
Mithika said they will have a headache of choosing which aspirant to vie for which seat as they have many people wanting to contest under the party.
“We were campaigning for Ruto and Meru emerged number four in voting for President Ruto. But he started ignoring us to an extent of sending me and Gachagua parking. Now we are going to send him home to restore our glory,” Mithika said.
He accused President Ruto of collapsing Hustler Fund,Women Fund and Youth Fund which were well structured but they were collapsed and now his Deputy is going round giving handouts in the name of empowerment,” Mithika said.
