Gladys Wanga Tears Down Rigathi Gachagua Over Constant Bickering: "Be Serious With Your Work"

• The explosive interview Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua gave the media on Friday evening is haunting him
• Members of the ODM party are among the quarters reading bitterness in Gachagua's lamentations
• They advised him to focus on his constitutional mandate and shun what they say are sideshows and sympathy-seeking ventures for his political expediency

Eli Odaga, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings more than three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has been counselled to stop his lamentations in public and instead focus on his mandate.

What Gladys Wanga told Rigathi Gachagua

Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) national chairperson who is also Homa Bay governor Gladys Wanga faulted Gachagua for taking his cries to the media, yet the issues he is raising are not of national importance.

She observed that the deputy president was finding it hard to stand other new broad-based government that now accommodates members of the opposition.

"When anybody from the presidency comes out to address the country, Kenyans expect that they will be hearing about how they are dealing with the challenges facing them. The bitterness is arising from the fact that other people who are not considered as shareholders have now come forward and are participating in this company that is Kenya," said Wanga.

Wanga told Gachagua that it was not his place to lament over mundane issues, adding that Kenyans are still expecting much from his office

Further, the first-timer in the Council of Governors (CoG) asked Gachagua to shun confining himself to the politics of Mt Kenya and instead traverse the country preaching development and togetherness, given that he is part of the presidency, which is a symbol of national unity.

"If you are elected as a president and deputy president, you must just be serious with your work and the work that Kenyans have given you. And you must know that it is not your duty or your place to come back and lament,” said Wanga.

"We would like to see the deputy president touring the country, the whole country, the entire country. And if he doesn’t know the borders, maybe somebody should show him the borders of this country and tell him that we would like to see him touring, talking about the development of Kenya as a whole," the county boss added.

In a Citizen TV interview on Friday evening, September 20, Gachagua explicitly spoke about the humiliations meted out to him within the presidency.

He implicated operatives at State House Nairobi whom he accused of standing in his way to deliver on his mandate.

Why Gachagua is angry at Ruto

The deputy president decried being despised by Cabinet secretaries and other juniors who have exploded into an- all-out war against him.

He seemed to lay the blame on President William Ruto, implying that the latter had stepped back to see him face trouble.

In an appeal to the president, Gachagua reminded him of the vow he made when they got into office after the 2022 vote.

He recalled that Ruto promised not to allow denigration on him (Gachagua), as was the case during former president Uhuru Kenyatta's tenure when the current president was humiliated.

With the current goings-on, Gachagua seemed wary of the troubles surrounding his tenure in office, pleading with the president not to allow his impeachment.

He appreciated having gone through the worst already and that he had had enough of it.

Proofreading by Asher Omondi, current affairs journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke.